Taxfyle API
Taxfyle's Worklayer REST API is publicly documented at docs.taxfyle.com but partner-gated: Workspaces and credentials come only after a contract. Coverage runs deep, from the job lifecycle to documents with OCR and signed webhooks. The Postman collection is the canonical artifact; no SDKs.
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Taxfyle scores C on the API Report Card. Taxfyle's Worklayer REST API is publicly documented at docs.taxfyle.com but partner-gated: Workspaces and credentials come only after a contract. Coverage runs deep, from the job lifecycle to documents with OCR and signed webhooks. The Postman collection is the canonical artifact; no SDKs.
Taxfyle has an official API, but teams routinely hit its limits: gated access, partial coverage, or paid tiers. Most end up supplementing it with exports or an unofficial API layer like Supergood.
Taxfyle is a Coconut Grove, Florida-based online tax preparation, advisory, and on-demand accounting workforce platform operated by parent company Tickmark, Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by Richard 'Ricky' Lavina (Co-Founder & CEO) and Michael Mouriz (Co-Founder & COO).
Vertical: Financial Services (with strong adjacency to Accounting/Tax/Audit). Sub-vertical: on-demand tax preparation marketplace + B2B embedded tax/accounting workforce API. Consumer tax filing: Filer signs up on taxfyle.com, completes a questionnaire, uploads W-2s / 1099s / K-1s / brokerage statements / receipts to the document vault (OCR runs), gets matched to a CPA or EA from the network, completes back-and-forth via the in-app messaging system, signs e-file authorizations, return is e-filed, refund method is set..
Low-to-moderate, depending on slice. In the consumer 'expert-assisted online tax prep' market Taxfyle is a recognized brand inside the alternative/'TurboTax alternative' comparison set (Forbes, Fortune, Inc.
Taxfyle / Worklayer handles a comprehensive set of regulated tax, financial, and PII data on behalf of consumers, firms, and embedded partners: Filer PII: Full name, address, DOB, SSN / ITIN, government-issued ID images, phone, email, filing status, citizenship/residency, state(s) of residence and source income..
Founded 2015 in Coconut Grove, Florida by Richard Lavina and Michael Mouriz under parent Tickmark, Inc.; ~11 years old as of 2026.
Partner-gated rather than self-serve, integrators must request a demo and contract with Taxfyle before Workspace provisioning and credential issuance, which extends evaluation cycles vs. a Stripe-style 'sign up and ship today' API. No publicly discoverable first-party back-end SDKs (Node, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, .NET), Postman Collection is the canonical developer artifact; integrators hand-roll HTTP clients. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Intuit TurboTax Live (expert-assisted), H&R Block Online Assist / Tax Pro Go, Jackson Hewitt Online, Intuit ProConnect / Lacerte / ProSeries, Drake Software, Wolters Kluwer CCH Axcess / ProSystem fx. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial Taxfyle API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Taxfyle data. See the Taxfyle integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/taxfyle-api.