---
title: "Official local-government fiscal source leads and parsing guide"
method: POST
path: "/api/locus_fiscal_source_guide"
tags: ["fiscal", "tax-base", "audit", "source-discovery", "read-only", "free", "free"]
---

# Official local-government fiscal source leads and parsing guide

`POST /api/locus_fiscal_source_guide`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.locus.report`
- URL: `https://api.locus.report/api/locus_fiscal_source_guide`
- Auth: none required

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.

## Request body

- object
  - `place` string, required: US address, ZIP, city + state, or county + state; use an exact address for a cross-county city.

## Response `200`

Free cited evidence response.

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid request body.
- `429`: Rate limited.

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