Certified

{
  "confidence": "primary",
  "country": "KE",
  "disclaimer": "Independent service, not affiliated with any government. Verify against the cited official source before legal or financial use.",
  "effective_from": "2021-01-01",
  "last_confirmed": "2026-09-13",
  "last_confirmed_by": "provenance-byte-identity",
  "notes": "16% continuously since 2021-01-01 (restored from the temporary 14% COVID rate). The separate 8% petroleum band was deleted by the Finance Act 2023 (2023-07-01). Finance Acts 2025 …",
  "series": "vat",
  "source": {
    "name": "Kenya Revenue Authority — Value Added Tax (VAT)",
    "url": "https://www.kra.go.ke/individual/filing-paying/types-of-taxes/value-added-tax"
  },
  "stale": false,
  "unit": "percent",
  "value": 16,
  "vat_bands": [
    {
      "applies_to": "VAT Act s.5(2)(a) sets the rate for a zero-rated supply at \"zero per cent\"; s.7(2) provides that a supply or importation \"shall be zero-rated under this section if the goods or se…",
      "band": "zero",
      "label": "Zero-rated supply",
      "notes": "NOT EXHAUSTIVE - Parts A and B are itemised lists; operative words and representative items only, and several Part A items are struck out in the consolidation. Per s.7(1) a zero-r…",
      "rate": 0,
      "source": {
        "name": "Value Added Tax Act No. 35 of 2013, s.5(2)(a) and s.7 read with the Second Schedule (Parts A and B)",
        "url": "https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/act/2013/35/eng@2024-12-27"
      }
    }
  ]
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://afriref.dev/v1/certified/:country/:series'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://afriref.dev/v1/certified/:country/:series' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.1 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.1" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.1 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fafriref.dev%2Fv1%2Fcertified%2F%3Acountry%2F%3Aseries
const res = await pay("https://afriref.dev/v1/certified/:country/:series");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.1 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.1"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://afriref.dev/v1/certified/:country/:series")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)