# Returns the tax configuration with the given identifier.

`GET /accounting/tax-configurations/{id}`

Group: Accounting › Tax Configurations · Operation ID: `getTaxConfiguration`

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## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Api-Version` | header | `"v1"` | yes | The API version this request targets, named by its public identifier. Required on every request; omitting it, or naming a version this company does not have, is answered with 400. This document describes version `v1`. |
| `id` | path | string | yes | The unique identifier for the tax configuration to return. |

## Response

`200` Success

Under `data` (getTaxConfigurationOutput):

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for the tax configuration. |
| `entityId` | string | yes | The legal entity this configuration belongs to. An entity has at most one tax configuration. See id on GET base/entities. |
| `entityName` | string | no | The name of the owning legal entity. |
| `status` | string | yes | The status of the tax configuration. The tax codes of an inactive configuration are not offered on documents. Possible values: 'Active', 'Inactive'. |
| `taxRegime` | string | yes | The tax system that determines which tax components are valid. Possible values: 'EU_VAT', 'India_GST', 'Canada_GST', 'Ghana_VAT', 'SingleRate_GST'. |
| `externalId` | string | no | An external system's identifier for this configuration, set when it was migrated from another system. |
| `lastModifiedDate` | string (date-time) | yes | The date and time the tax configuration record last changed, in UTC. Format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ. |
| `lines` | array of object | yes | The tax codes of this configuration, in display order. Every configuration has at least one. |
| `lines[].id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for the tax code line. |
| `lines[].taxCode` | string | no | The business tax code as printed on source documents, for example 'V19EUG' or 'U00EU'. Absent when none was supplied. |
| `lines[].title` | string | yes | The display title of the tax code. Unique within the configuration. |
| `lines[].comment` | string | no | A free-form note on when to use this tax code. Absent when none was set. |
| `lines[].vatDeclarationField` | string | no | The box or boxes on the VAT return that this code feeds, taken verbatim from the tax authority form, for example '66' or '46+47+67'. Free text, not evaluated. Absent when none was set. |
| `lines[].percentage` | string (decimal) | yes | The tax rate, as a decimal fraction. For example, 0.19 is 19%. 0 for a zero-rated or exempt code. |
| `lines[].rateType` | string | yes | The legal rate classification of the tax code. Possible values: 'Standard', 'Reduced', 'SuperReduced', 'Zero', 'Exempt'. |
| `lines[].scope` | string | yes | The territorial scope of the transaction. Possible values: 'Domestic', 'IntraEU_B2B', 'IntraEU_B2C', 'ExtraEU_Goods', 'ExtraEU_Services'. |
| `lines[].direction` | string | yes | Which side the tax sits on. 'Input' is tax paid on purchases, 'Output' is tax charged on sales. Possible values: 'Input', 'Output'. |
| `lines[].isReverseCharge` | boolean | yes | Whether the recipient rather than the supplier accounts for the tax, for example under §13b UStG. A reverse-charge line books a second, crediting entry to reverseChargeCreditAccountId on each of its accounts. |
| `lines[].isActive` | boolean | yes | Whether the tax code is offered for selection on new documents. Inactive codes stay readable on existing documents. |
| `lines[].index` | number | yes | The position of the line within its configuration, used for display order. |
| `lines[].accounts` | array of object | yes | The GL accounts this tax code books to, one per chart of accounts the entity books in. Every tax code has at least one, including exempt and zero-rated codes, which book a tax line at zero. |
| `lines[].accounts[].id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for the account mapping. |
| `lines[].accounts[].chartOfAccountsId` | string | yes | The chart of accounts this mapping applies to. See id on GET accounting/chart-of-accounts/:id. |
| `lines[].accounts[].accountId` | string | yes | The account the tax amount is booked to. See id on GET accounting/accounts/:id. |
| `lines[].accounts[].reverseChargeCreditAccountId` | string | no | The account credited with the offsetting tax amount on a reverse-charge line. Absent when isReverseCharge is false. See id on GET accounting/accounts/:id. |

## Errors

| Code | Status |
| --- | --- |
| `NOT_FOUND` | 400 |

## Statuses

- `400` — Invalid request or business failure. Codes: NOT_FOUND
- `401` — Missing or invalid access token
- `403` — Not authorized
- `404` — Not found
- `429` — Too many requests
- `500` — Internal server error