VAT Calculator calculates the VAT amount as well as the price with and without VAT. The VAT % is pre-filled, but you can change it or clear the value. The results are rounded to your desired precision. You can also make a currency conversion.
You can also choose the VAT% by clicking the percentages in the tables below.
Bulgaria | |
| standard rate | 20% Most taxable goods and services that are not subject to a reduced or zero rate or an exemption. From 1 January 2025, restaurant and catering services are again subject to 20%, as are bread and flour following the expiry of the temporary zero rate. |
| reduced rate | 9% Accommodation in hotels and similar establishments, including holiday accommodation and camping or caravan pitches. Printed or electronic books, including textbooks and children's books, as well as newspapers and magazines, except publications devoted wholly or mainly to advertising or consisting wholly or mainly of video or audio-music content. Food suitable for babies or young children, baby diapers and similar baby hygiene products listed in Annex 4 to the VAT Act. |
| Past changes: | |
| 1 Jan 2025 | The temporary reduced VAT rate on restaurant and catering services ends, and the rate returns from 9% to 20%. The temporary zero rate on bread and flour also ends, and these products return to 20%. Bulgarian Ministry of Finance |
| 1 Jul 2024 | The temporary 9% rate for the use of sports facilities and qualifying general tourist services ends and the standard 20% rate applies. Bulgarian Ministry of Finance |
Note! The VAT information on this page is general information, not tax advice. The information is not exhaustive. VAT rules include many exceptions and special cases. Check the treatment of your situation in the tax administration's guidelines. Information last checked 6 Oct 2026. If you find errors in the information, please let us know. Read our editorial principles.
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VAT rounding: the EU, the UK and other European countries
The EU VAT Directive and the Court of Justice of the European Union leave VAT rounding rules to be decided at national level. National rules vary. In the UK, HMRC allows VAT on B2B invoices to be rounded down to the nearest whole penny.
Roundings in VAT calculation: Mathematically impossible prices?
There are a whole range of VAT-inclusive prices that cannot be mathematically arrived at if the tax is calculated from the VAT-free price. One example is 3.99. These prices are also possible, but then the VAT-free price must be interpreted as rounded.
VAT Gap - How much VAT is left uncollected in EU countries?
9.5% of VAT was left uncollected in EU countries. See the list of EU countries and candidate countries.
In Europe there is VAT - in the US sales tax
In Europe, companies belonging to the production chain account for the VAT paid by the consumer to the state in proportion to their value added. The US sales tax, on the other hand, is billed entirely by the company that made the consumer sale. Sales tax is paid to local operators, not to the state.
Many of today's taxes were already in use in Antiquity. Deciding on taxation has moved from autocrats to parliaments and the level of taxation has risen. In earlier times taxes were used to wage wars, today taxes are used to maintain welfare states.