`receipt.tax.confirm`

Confirm GST/HST on a receipt or bank purchase, including an explicitly verified zero, with current revision, original source reason and idempotency key. Generic taxes remain separate; original printed components are preserved.

POST/api/v1/accounting/receipt.tax.confirm

Permissions

accounting:readaccounting:write

Who can call it

admin, finance

Retries

Idempotency key required, with expectedRevision

MCP

Not offered over MCP: Accountants' corrections grant isn't offered over MCP yet: phase 1 is read and comment only.

Fields

entryIdstring (ID)Required
The ID of an accounting entry, from entries.list or attention.mine.
taxMinorstringRequired
An amount in cents (the currency's smallest unit), written as a whole-number string such as "1250" for $12.50.
Whole number written as a string
reasonstringRequired
A short note saying why, kept in the record's history.
10–1000 characters
expectedRevisionintegerRequired
The record's current revision, from the last time you read it. If someone changed the record since, the request is refused with a conflict so you can reload and check before trying again.
at most 9007199254740991 · greater than 0
idempotencyKeystringRequired
Any unique text you generate once per intended change, so a retried request only happens once. Send it as the Idempotency-Key header instead if you prefer; if you send both they must match.
8–200 characters

curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/receipt.tax.confirm \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{
  "entryId": "7f0f6c1e-1c1f-4b5e-9c8d-2f5e8e3c1a10",
  "taxMinor": "1250",
  "reason": "Synthetic example from the docs",
  "expectedRevision": 3
}'

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/receipt.tax.confirm", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "entryId": "7f0f6c1e-1c1f-4b5e-9c8d-2f5e8e3c1a10",
    "taxMinor": "1250",
    "reason": "Synthetic example from the docs",
    "expectedRevision": 3
  }),
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/receipt.tax.confirm",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "entryId": "7f0f6c1e-1c1f-4b5e-9c8d-2f5e8e3c1a10",
        "taxMinor": "1250",
        "reason": "Synthetic example from the docs",
        "expectedRevision": 3,
    },
    timeout=30,
)
payload = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{payload['error']['code']}: {payload['error']['message']}")
print(payload["data"])

Response

{
  "data": { … }
}

Try it

Checks your input with this action’s real schema and answers like the API, with synthetic data. No key needed, and nothing changes.

Input

POST/api/v1/accounting/receipt.tax.confirm

curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/receipt.tax.confirm \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{
  "entryId": "7f0f6c1e-1c1f-4b5e-9c8d-2f5e8e3c1a10",
  "taxMinor": "1250",
  "reason": "Synthetic example from the docs",
  "expectedRevision": 3
}'

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/receipt.tax.confirm", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "entryId": "7f0f6c1e-1c1f-4b5e-9c8d-2f5e8e3c1a10",
    "taxMinor": "1250",
    "reason": "Synthetic example from the docs",
    "expectedRevision": 3
  }),
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/receipt.tax.confirm",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "entryId": "7f0f6c1e-1c1f-4b5e-9c8d-2f5e8e3c1a10",
        "taxMinor": "1250",
        "reason": "Synthetic example from the docs",
        "expectedRevision": 3,
    },
    timeout=30,
)
payload = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{payload['error']['code']}: {payload['error']['message']}")
print(payload["data"])

Fields

Example

Try it