Taxes

Mark a tax as the default for its type

Set a visible tax as your company's default for its category (vat, retention or surcharge) in every compatible document type; only your configuration changes.

  • Inactive taxes return 422 tax_inactive_cannot_be_default; non-defaultable ones 422 tax_not_defaultable_for_document.
  • If the category is off in all compatible types, 422 tax_default_axis_disabled.
post/companies/{company}/taxes/{tax}/set-default

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.factuarea.com/v1
  • URL: https://api.factuarea.com/v1/companies/{company}/taxes/{tax}/set-default
  • Auth: one of:
    • HTTP bearer
    • API key in header X-API-Key

Path parameters

companystring uuid required

Public identifier (UUID v7) of the company. Get it from GET /v1/me (data.scope[].id).

taxstring uuid required

Public identifier (UUID v7) of the tax.

Headers

Idempotency-Keystring
Example:01928f10-7c0e-7c4a-9b7d-2f8a6e3c1d4b

Client-generated opaque key (up to 255 characters; UUID v7 recommended) that makes retries safe: the first response is cached and replayed for repeats without re-executing the mutation. Reusing a key with a different body returns 422 idempotency_key_reused; the values of secret fields (password, secret…) count as part of the body, so retrying with a corrected secret under the same key is a different request, never the replay of the earlier answer. See the Idempotency guide.

Factuarea-Versionstring date
Example:2026-06-01

Pin the API version (YYYY-MM-DD, Stripe-style date versioning) for this request; omit to use the key's pinned version, or the latest if none. Unsupported version → 400 unsupported_api_version; malformed → 400 parameter_invalid_format. The effective version is echoed in the Factuarea-Version response header. See the Versioning guide.

Response

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "id": "01931b3e-7c4a-7f2e-9a8b-3c5d6e7f8a0f",
    "object": "tax",
    "name": "IVA general 21%",
    "code": "IVA21",
    "rate": 21,
    "type": "vat",
    "applies_to": "both",
    "country": "ES",
    "is_default": true,
    "is_active": true,
    "is_system": true,
    "ownership": "global",
    "description": "IVA general aplicable en territorio peninsular y Baleares.",
    "default_for_documents": {
      "invoice": true,
      "quote": true,
      "delivery_note": true,
      "proforma": true,
      "purchase_invoice": true,
      "recurring_invoice": true
    },
    "customer_visible_label": "IVA 21%",
    "external_reference": "S1",
    "valid_from": "2012-09-01",
    "country_aeat_zone": "peninsula",
    "indirect_tax_regime": "iva",
    "linked_surcharge_taxes_id": "01931b3e-7c4a-7f2e-9a8b-3c5d6e7f8a10",
    "metadata": {
      "erp_code": "IVA-GEN",
      "ledger_account": "477000"
    },
    "created_at": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.