VAT TOOLS
PlainVAT tools
Four live tools against the EU + UK VAT registry. We do not log your inputs; no signup needed.
- Jurisdictions covered
- 28
- Live tools
- 4
- Standard-rate range
- 17.0-27.0%
According to the European Commission Taxation and Customs Union, these tools draw on the same 28-jurisdiction registry described in our methodology.
VAT calculator
Add VAT to a net price, or work out how much VAT is inside a gross price, for any EU member state or the UK.
VAT number check
Live EU VIES + UK HMRC validation. Returns trader name and address when the underlying service exposes them.
Reverse-charge lookup
Tell us supplier country, customer country, and supply type. We tell you which VAT applies and the legal basis.
Country VAT compare
Side-by-side VAT rates, schemes, and post-Brexit treatment for any pair of EU 27 + UK jurisdictions.
What's in the archive
The 28-jurisdiction registry every tool above queries against, grouped by standard-rate band.
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. This page draws directly on the European Commission VAT-rate registry, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.