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VAT rates for 44 European countries — EU-27 plus Norway, Switzerland, UK, and more. EU rates sourced from the European Commission TEDB and checked daily. Non-EU rates maintained manually.

Standard, reduced, super-reduced, and parking rates
eu_member flag on every country — true for EU-27, false for non-EU
vat_name — official name of the VAT tax in the country's primary official language
vat_abbr — short abbreviation used locally (e.g. "ALV", "MwSt", "TVA")
No dependencies — pure PHP 8.1+
Data bundled in the package — works offline, no network calls
EU rates checked daily via GitHub Actions, new version published only when rates change

Also available in: JavaScript/TypeScript (npm) · Python (PyPI) · Go · Ruby (RubyGems)

Installation

composer require vatnode/eu-vat-rates-data

Usage

use VATNode\EuVatRates\EuVatRates;

// Full rate array for a country
$fi = EuVatRates::getRate('FI');
// [
//   'country'       => 'Finland',
//   'currency'      => 'EUR',
//   'eu_member'     => true,
//   'vat_name'      => 'Arvonlisävero',
//   'vat_abbr'      => 'ALV',
//   'standard'      => 25.5,
//   'reduced'       => [10.0, 13.5],
//   'super_reduced' => null,
//   'parking'       => null,
// ]

// Just the standard rate
EuVatRates::getStandardRate('DE');  // → 19.0

// EU membership check — false for non-EU countries (GB, NO, CH, ...)
if (EuVatRates::isEuMember($userInput)) {
    $rate = EuVatRates::getRate($userInput);
}

// Dataset membership check (all 44 countries)
if (EuVatRates::hasRate($userInput)) {
    $rate = EuVatRates::getRate($userInput);
}

// All 44 countries at once
foreach (EuVatRates::getAllRates() as $code => $rate) {
    echo "{$code}: {$rate['standard']}%\n";
}

// When were EU rates last fetched?
echo EuVatRates::dataVersion();  // e.g. "2026-03-27"

Data source & update frequency

EU-27 rates: European Commission TEDB, refreshed daily at 07:00 UTC
Non-EU rates: maintained manually, updated on official rate changes
Published to Packagist only when actual rates change

Covered countries

EU-27 (daily auto-updates via EC TEDB):

AT BE BG CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GR HR HU IE IT LT LU LV MT NL PL PT RO SE SI SK

Non-EU Europe (manually maintained):

AD AL BA CH GB GE IS LI MC MD ME MK NO RS TR UA XK

Need to validate VAT numbers?

This package provides VAT rates only. If you also need to validate EU VAT numbers against the official VIES database — confirming a business is VAT-registered — check out vatnode.dev, a simple REST API with a free tier.

curl https://api.vatnode.dev/v1/vat/FI17156132 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer vat_live_..."
# → { "valid": true, "companyName": "Suomen Pehmeä Ikkuna Oy" }

License

MIT

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