eu-vat-rates-data

Canonical data source for EU VAT rates — all 27 EU member states plus the United Kingdom, sourced from the European Commission TEDB. Checked daily, committed automatically when rates change.

This repository contains only the data and the update script. Language-specific packages are published separately:

Language	Package	Install
JavaScript / TypeScript	npm	npm install eu-vat-rates-data
Python	PyPI	pip install eu-vat-rates-data
PHP	Packagist	composer require vatnode/eu-vat-rates-data
Go	pkg.go.dev	go get github.com/vatnode/eu-vat-rates-data-go
Ruby	RubyGems	gem install eu_vat_rates_data

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Direct JSON access

No package needed — use the JSON directly via CDN:

# jsDelivr CDN (cached):
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/vatnode/eu-vat-rates-data@main/data/eu-vat-rates-data.json

# Raw GitHub (always latest commit):
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vatnode/eu-vat-rates-data/main/data/eu-vat-rates-data.json

const res = await fetch(
  'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/vatnode/eu-vat-rates-data@main/data/eu-vat-rates-data.json'
)
const { rates } = await res.json()
console.log(rates.DE.standard) // 19

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Data structure

```ts interface VatRate { country: string // "Finland" currency: string // "EUR" (or "DKK", "GBP", …) standard: number // 25.5 reduced: number[] // [10, 13.5] — sorted ascending super_reduced: number | null // null when not applicable parking: number | null // null when not applicable } ```

Example JSON entry

```json { "version": "2026-02-25", "source": "European Commission TEDB", "url": "https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/tedb/vatRates.html", "rates": { "FI": { "country": "Finland", "currency": "EUR", "standard": 25.5, "reduced": [10, 13.5], "super_reduced": null, "parking": null } } } ```

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Update frequency

• Fetched from EC TEDB SOAP API: daily at 07:00 UTC
• Committed on every run (version date always updated)
• Full audit trail: `git log -- data/eu-vat-rates-data.json`

To run locally:

```bash git clone https://github.com/vatnode/eu-vat-rates-data.git pip install requests python3 scripts/update.py ```

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Covered countries

EU-27 member states + United Kingdom (28 countries total):

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

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Need to validate VAT numbers?

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

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License

MIT

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