Avalara Tax Registrations and Business Licenses MCP MCP server

Provides access to Avalara Tax Registration and Business Licenses APIs for creating License Guidance, License Filing, Sales Tax Registration, Payroll Tax Registrations, and Unemployment Insurance Registration orders, as well as questionnaire management, industry regulation lookups, and filing authority data.

Endpoint and access

OAuth sign-in: the first time you connect, your client opens the vendor's own authorization prompt in a browser.

OAuth sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-10-05Operated by Avalara

MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)

https://mcp.avalara.com/bl

Vendor documentation

What you can do with it

Determine required licenses for a business type at a specific address
Check payroll registration authority counts for a given location
Create License Guidance orders to analyze business location activities
File required business licenses and tax registrations on behalf of the customer

Connect from your client

Each snippet registers the same endpoint; pick the client you use.

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers a Streamable HTTP server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.

Claude Code configuration

claude mcp add --transport http avalara-tax-registrations-and-business-licenses-mcp https://mcp.avalara.com/bl

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).

Codex configuration

codex mcp add avalara-tax-registrations-and-business-licenses-mcp --url https://mcp.avalara.com/bl

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable avalara-tax-registrations-and-business-licenses-mcp in your MCP settings.

Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "avalara-tax-registrations-and-business-licenses-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.avalara.com/bl"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure). The type must be streamableHttp for a remote HTTP server.

Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "avalara-tax-registrations-and-business-licenses-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://mcp.avalara.com/bl",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start avalara-tax-registrations-and-business-licenses-mcp and inspect its tools.

VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "avalara-tax-registrations-and-business-licenses-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.avalara.com/bl"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.

Gemini CLI configuration

gemini mcp add --transport http avalara-tax-registrations-and-business-licenses-mcp https://mcp.avalara.com/bl

Claude Desktop

Merge this into claude_desktop_config.json (macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\), then restart Claude Desktop.

Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "avalara-tax-registrations-and-business-licenses-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.avalara.com/bl"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.

Windsurf configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "avalara-tax-registrations-and-business-licenses-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.avalara.com/bl"
    }
  }
}

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