EU + UK VAT rate comparison

Compare VAT rates before you sell

Pick any two of the 28 jurisdictions to compare standard and reduced rates, schemes, and cross-border treatment from source-linked current records.

Highest standard rate
27% · Hungary
Median standard rate
21%
Top-10 threshold
23%+

The rate landscape

Hungary has the highest standard VAT rate at 27%, 6 percentage points above the 21% median across the tracked EU and UK jurisdictions.

According to the European Commission's Taxes in Europe Database (TEDB), with HMRC coverage for the UK.

27%
Highest, Hungary
21%
Median standard rate
23%+
Top-10 threshold

Use the picker below for the full side-by-side treatment, including reduced rates, schemes, validation routes, and post-Brexit context.

This 28-jurisdiction EU and UK reference uses current standard-rate records from the European Commission's TEDB and HMRC for the UK. Open a country page to inspect its rate tiers, authority link, effective date, and validation route.

Highest standard VAT rates

The ten highest current standard rates in the tracked EU and UK corpus. The full ranked reference remains below.

Hungary27%Finland25.5%Croatia25%Denmark25%Sweden25%Greece24%Ireland23%Poland23%Portugal23%Slovakia23%
Top 10 current standard VAT rates, ranked high to low

Full reference: standard rates

All current standard rates, ranked high to low. Open any country for rate tiers, source links, and validation details.

# Country Standard rate
1 Hungary 27%
2 Finland 25.5%
3 Croatia 25%
4 Denmark 25%
5 Sweden 25%
6 Greece 24%
7 Ireland 23%
8 Poland 23%
9 Portugal 23%
10 Slovakia 23%
11 Estonia 22%
12 Italy 22%
13 Slovenia 22%
14 Belgium 21%
15 Czech Republic 21%
16 Latvia 21%
17 Lithuania 21%
18 Netherlands 21%
19 Spain 21%
20 Austria 20%
21 Bulgaria 20%
22 France 20%
23 United Kingdom 20%
24 Cyprus 19%
25 Germany 19%
26 Romania 19%
27 Malta 18%
28 Luxembourg 17%
Compiled from official public sources by the publisher.

PlainVAT renders country-rate figures from the European Commission's Taxation and Customs Union VAT-rate registry; explanatory guidance links to its relevant authority sources. The quick-reference table above ranks all 28 jurisdictions by standard rate; use the picker for a full side-by-side breakdown including reduced rates, schemes, and cross-border treatment. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.