Official local-government fiscal source leads and parsing guide

Free official fiscal source pointers for a caller-selected US place plus reusable instructions for reading budgets, audits, tax bases, levies and collections. National leads are always available; state and local links require a resolved jurisdiction. Does not fetch documents, report figures, or activate the paid fiscal snapshot. A city spanning counties needs an exact address or confirmed county before local links can be assigned. Direct flat-body route for this one free resource; no API key, payment, or catalog wrapper. Return only the cited bounded evidence described here; this route never produces a paid brief or full report.