# Africa Compliance Data

> REST API and MCP server with compliance reference data for 54 African countries, with coverage shown per country (ready, partial or gap): public holidays and business days, a holiday watch for announced and moon-sighted holidays (Eid, Mawlid), holiday calendar feeds, VAT and VAT rate history, withholding tax and tax-treaty rates, tax ID format checks, filing deadlines, finance-law digests (unofficial summaries; the cited law prevails), and payroll data: income tax bands on employment income (PAYE) and social-security contributions, in dated periods. Every value cites its source: official texts first; secondary sources, press reports and estimates are labelled, with a confidence level. Reference data, not legal or tax advice. Africa Compliance Data is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any government or tax authority.

- API base URL: https://api.africacompliancedata.com (send the key in header `x-api-key` or `Authorization: Bearer`)
- MCP endpoint: https://api.africacompliancedata.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, protocol 2025-06-18, 16 read-only tools; for MCP clients that support an API-key header, such as Claude Code and Cursor)
- Free public holiday feeds, no key: https://africacompliancedata.com/calendar/{cc}.ics (ISO code in either case, e.g. ke)

## API and dataset

Africa Compliance Data is an API and dataset for African public holidays, business days, VAT, withholding tax, tax treaties, tax ID formats and filing deadlines. The dataset is compiled by Africa Compliance Data from cited sources and served through the REST API, the MCP server, the public holiday calendar feeds and signed country-year bundles (SDK private mode). It covers 54 countries, with coverage shown per country and feature (ready, partial or gap). Access is under the Terms of Service (not an open licence): holidays and business days are on the Free plan; tax data is on the Pro and Compliance plans; the full dataset for your own systems is available under a data licence.

- [Documentation](https://africacompliancedata.com/docs)
- [OpenAPI description](https://africacompliancedata.com/openapi.json)
- [MCP endpoint](https://api.africacompliancedata.com/mcp)
- [Pricing](https://africacompliancedata.com/#pricing)
- [Coverage by country](https://africacompliancedata.com/countries/)
- [VAT rates and filing deadlines, all 54 countries in one table](https://africacompliancedata.com/countries/vat-rates/): standard rate, coverage, source confidence and last check per country; number of filing deadlines

## Docs

- [Documentation](https://africacompliancedata.com/docs): authentication, plans, endpoints, response format, webhooks, MCP setup
- [OpenAPI 3.1 description](https://africacompliancedata.com/openapi.json)
- [Postman collection](https://africacompliancedata.com/postman/africa-compliance-data.postman_collection.json)
- [MCP server card](https://api.africacompliancedata.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json)

## Plans

- Free ($0): holidays, business days, calendar feeds, MCP; non-commercial use with credit to Africa Compliance Data; 3,000 requests/month, 30/minute
- Developer ($19/month or $190/year): the same for commercial use, plus the holiday watch (estimated and confirmed moon-sighted holiday dates) and holiday-change webhooks; 50,000 requests/month, 60/minute
- Pro ($99/month or $990/year): adds tax data for a pack of 5 countries the customer chooses (+$15/month per extra country): VAT (with rate on a date; rate history for 42 countries), withholding tax and tax-treaty rates (treaties for 35 countries, partial), tax ID format checks, filing deadlines, payroll tax bands (51 countries) and social-security contributions (49 countries), both with partial coverage in many; 250,000 requests/month, 300/minute
- Compliance ($249/month or $2,490/year): all 54 countries, finance-law digests (37 countries), webhooks for every change, email change alerts, priority support (no SLA); 1,000,000 requests/month, 1,000/minute
- Monthly quotas count successful requests per key per calendar month (UTC); over the quota the API answers 429 until the 1st; headers X-Quota-Limit and X-Quota-Remaining
- Data licences (written contract): Internal from $6,000/year (up to 10 countries; all 54 from $12,000/year), Platform from $15,000/year (embedded display; the only offer with an uptime commitment: 99.5% monthly, with service credits), Private/offline from $18,000/year
- Subscriptions started before 20 October 2026 keep their plan and price
- Get a key: https://africacompliancedata.com/#pricing

## Optional

- [Terms of Service](https://africacompliancedata.com/terms)
- [Privacy Policy](https://africacompliancedata.com/privacy)
- [Free tools](https://africacompliancedata.com/tools/)