VAT Calculator — Add or Remove VAT From Any Price

How the VAT Calculator Works

Value Added Tax is a percentage added to the price of most goods and services at the point of sale. The mechanics are simple once you know which direction you're converting. To add VAT to a net (pre-tax) price, the calculator multiplies the amount by the rate and adds that on top: gross = net × (1 + rate ÷ 100). To remove VAT from a gross (VAT-inclusive) price — for example, when you have a receipt total and need to know how much of it was tax — it works backward: net = gross ÷ (1 + rate ÷ 100). Both directions also report the VAT amount itself as a separate figure, which is what most invoices and bookkeeping records need to show.

The rate itself is entirely up to you. This calculator offers common preset percentages — 5% up through 25% — as a convenience, plus a custom field for any rate that doesn't appear in the list. It does not look up or verify a live, legally correct rate for any country or product category on its own. VAT rates vary significantly by country, and within a single country they often vary further by category — many places apply a reduced rate or a full exemption to items like food, books, or children's goods while taxing everything else at the standard rate. Whatever rate you select is applied uniformly to the amount you enter, so getting an accurate result depends on you knowing and entering the correct rate for your specific situation.

Because of that, this tool is best treated as a calculation aid rather than a source of tax law. It will do the arithmetic correctly for whatever rate you provide, but it can't tell you whether that rate is the one that legally applies to your transaction, and it won't update itself if a country changes its VAT rate. For anything beyond a quick estimate — pricing a product for sale, filing a VAT return, or reconciling accounts — confirm the applicable rate with a tax professional or your local tax authority before relying on the figure.

If you're trying to estimate what you'll owe on income rather than on a purchase, that's a separate kind of tax with its own bracket-based logic — see the Tax Calculator for estimating income tax across several countries. Both tools run entirely in your browser, so nothing you enter is uploaded or stored.