taxjar
Sales tax API client for Python
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes, if you need to integrate with TaxJar's API and accept its aging maintenance status. The package is stable (Production/Stable classifier), has no known vulnerabilities, and low install friction. However, the last commit was 487 days ago—verify that it still works reliably with current TaxJar API endpoints before relying on it in production. If active maintenance is a priority, check whether TaxJar or the community have released a more recent fork.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires a TaxJar API key obtained from https://app.taxjar.com/api_sign_up/plus/
- Low install friction with only two runtime dependencies (requests and jsonobject).
- Maintenance status is aging—last commit was 487 days ago, though the repository remains active and unarchived.
License · maintenance · safety
permissive license (permissive) — Licensed under MIT (permissive), meaning you can use, modify, and distribute the package freely with minimal restrictions.
last release 2025-04-14 (487 days) · last repo commit 2025-04-14 · 30 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 133,535 downloads/mo, #11,507 on PyPI
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Verify before relying
pip install taxjar
import taxjar
client = taxjar.Client(api_key='your_api_key')
tax = client.tax_for_order({
'from_country': 'US',
'from_zip': '94025',
'to_country': 'US',
'to_zip': '94303',
'amount': 267.9
})- Whether the package still works reliably with current TaxJar API endpoints given the aging maintenance status
- Current Python version support—classifiers list Python 2.6 and 2.7, but requires_python is unspecified
What it is and what it does
TaxJar is an official Python wrapper around the TaxJar Sales Tax API Version 2. It maps API responses to Python objects and provides methods for calculating sales tax on orders, managing transaction records (orders and refunds), handling customer data, validating addresses, and retrieving tax rates by jurisdiction. The package depends on requests for HTTP communication and jsonobject for mapping JSON responses to Python objects.
You instantiate a client with your TaxJar API key and call methods like tax_for_order() to compute tax liability, list_orders() to retrieve past transactions, or rates_for_location() to look up tax rates by postal code. The library handles authentication and request formatting automatically, returning structured Python objects rather than raw JSON.
Use it for
- Calculate sales tax due on an e-commerce order given origin and destination addresses and line items
- Retrieve and manage order and refund transaction records stored in TaxJar for compliance reporting
- Look up applicable tax rates for a given location to display at checkout or in tax estimation tools
- Validate customer addresses and VAT numbers before processing transactions
- Sync customer and transaction data with TaxJar for centralized tax compliance tracking
Worth the install?
AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page. Verify before relying on it.
Yes, if you need to integrate with TaxJar's API and accept its aging maintenance status.
The package is stable (Production/Stable classifier), has no known vulnerabilities, and low install friction. However, the last commit was 487 days ago—verify that it still works reliably with current TaxJar API endpoints before relying on it in production. If active maintenance is a priority, check whether TaxJar or the community have released a more recent fork.
Install
taxjar on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with only two runtime dependencies (requests and jsonobject). Maintenance status is aging—last commit was 487 days ago, though the repository remains active and unarchived.
Requires a TaxJar API key obtained from https://app.taxjar.com/api_sign_up/plus/
License in practice
Licensed under MIT (permissive), meaning you can use, modify, and distribute the package freely with minimal restrictions.
Quickstart
pip install taxjar
import taxjar
client = taxjar.Client(api_key='your_api_key')
tax = client.tax_for_order({
'from_country': 'US',
'from_zip': '94025',
'to_country': 'US',
'to_zip': '94303',
'amount': 267.9
})Verify before relying
- Whether the package still works reliably with current TaxJar API endpoints given the aging maintenance status
- Current Python version support—classifiers list Python 2.6 and 2.7, but requires_python is unspecified
Package facts
| License | permissive license permissive |
| Python support | Not specified |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 2 packagesrequestsjsonobject |
| Maintenance | Aging 487 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 133,535 / month, #11,507 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableIntended Audience :: DevelopersLicense :: OSI Approved :: MIT LicenseNatural Language :: EnglishOperating System :: OS IndependentProgramming Language :: Python :: 2.6Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7Programming Language :: Python :: 3Topic :: Office/BusinessTopic :: Office/Business :: FinancialTopic :: Office/Business :: Financial :: AccountingTopic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules |
Evidence: taxjar-2.0.1-py3-none-any.whl
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