With the myriad of exception to VAT rules and different rules and regulations in different countries, it’s a daunting task trying to compress and integrate the VAT system into an understandable lookup table or matrix.
When you read the rules and regulations in the EU VAT directive and local info from your tax authority it’s almost impossible to get a clear overview of the system, especially for entrepreneurs with limited VAT knowledge. Hence the need to publish a simplified cheat sheet for VAT from the perspective of an EU-based company.
EU-VAT Matrix
The VAT cheatsheet is also available in these languages here [German], [Finnish], [Swedish] and [Danish].
