# taxJurisdictionCountries

query · in the family [Reading your records](/reference/reading-your-records/)

## What it does

The countries with a live tax-jurisdiction tree — what the tax page’s country picker offers.

The LIVE tax-jurisdiction country roster: the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes of every seeded canonical country tree, from the ONE self-maintaining registry row the country-mint path grows — the office dropdown can never drift from the live trees again. Sorted; an unseeded estate answers the honest empty list. Requires authentication.

## What happens

Reads one platform registry row; grows by itself when a new country tree is seeded.

## Who may call it

Capability area: **Reading your records** — Looking up and listing the records of your organization.

- Owner
- System Administrator
- Manager
- Associate Manager
- Warehouse Associate
- Sales Associate
- An API key whose scope allows `api:taxJurisdictionCountries`

## Returns

[String](/types/#scalars) `[String!]!` — Text.

## Example request

```graphql
query ExampleTaxJurisdictionCountries {
  taxJurisdictionCountries
}
```

## Example response

```json
{
  "data": {
    "taxJurisdictionCountries": [
      "<tax jurisdiction countries>"
    ]
  },
  "extensions": {
    "at": {
      "callId": "01EXAMPLE-CALL-ID",
      "version": {
        "requested": null,
        "serviced": {
          "name": "genesis",
          "number": 0
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```

## Errors this call can answer

- `VALIDATION/INVALID` — Something in the request is not valid. ([VALIDATION](/errors/VALIDATION/))
- `AUTHN/REQUIRED` — Sign in to do this. ([AUTHN](/errors/AUTHN/))
- `AUTHZ/FORBIDDEN` — Your role does not allow this action. ([AUTHZ](/errors/AUTHZ/))
- `RATE_LIMIT/THROTTLED` — Too many requests in a short time. ([RATE_LIMIT](/errors/RATE_LIMIT/))