VAT Calculator
Calculate VAT — add it to net prices or extract it from gross totals.
How to use VAT Calculator
- Enter the amount and the VAT rate for your country (19% Germany, 20% UK/France…).
- Mark it net or gross — net adds VAT for invoicing; gross extracts it from receipts.
- Read the split: net, VAT amount, gross — ready for the invoice or the books.
- Watch the reverse math: gross ÷ 1.20 for the net at 20% — never gross × 0.80.
What is VAT Calculator?
A VAT calculator (VAT-Rechner, calculateur de TVA) converts between net and gross prices in both directions: net × (1 + rate) = gross (€100 at 20% VAT → €120), and gross ÷ (1 + rate) = net — a €120 gross price at 20% contains €100 net + €20 VAT.
Value Added Tax is Europe's consumption tax: standard rates run 17–27% across the EU (Germany 19%, France 20%, Italy 22%, Hungary's 27% the highest), the UK at 20%, with reduced rates for food, books and other categories. Consumer prices are always displayed gross — so the everyday business task is the reverse extraction, and subtracting the percentage instead of dividing is the perennial bookkeeping error.
About the VAT Calculator
Enter an amount and VAT rate, mark it as net or gross, and read the full split — net price, VAT amount, gross total — the three numbers every invoice and VAT return needs.
Who uses which direction: businesses writing invoices add VAT to net prices (B2B deals are quoted net); anyone processing receipts extracts it (registered businesses reclaim input VAT, so each receipt's tax must be split out — at 19% German VAT, divide the gross by 1.19); and cross-border shoppers compare prices that embed different national rates.
Rate quick-reference for the box: Germany 19% (7% reduced), France 20% (5.5%), UK 20% (5%), Spain 21%, Italy 22%, Netherlands 21%, Austria 20%, Switzerland 8.1%. Reduced and zero rates apply by product category per country — groceries, books, medicine most commonly.