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.
Hungary | |
| standard | 27% Most goods and services. For example, alcoholic beverages, bottled soft drinks, takeaway and home-delivered food, and staff canteens. |
| reduced | 18% Bakery and cereal products made from milk, flour and starch, certain dairy products, and outdoor events. 5% Basic foodstuffs (milk, poultry, eggs, fish, pork and beef), non-prescription medicines, books and periodicals, accommodation, restaurant food, non-alcoholic beverages prepared on the premises, district heating, internet access, live music performed by artists, subject to certain conditions, new residential properties, and firewood, wood pellets, wood briquettes and similar compressed wood fuels for heating. |
| Past changes: | |
| 15 Sep 2026 | VAT on firewood and on sawdust and wood waste compressed into pellets, briquettes or similar forms for heating falls from 27% to 5%. NAV, Taxation Question 2026/6; Act XLVIII of 2026 |
| 1 Sep 2026 | The VAT rate on prescription-only medicines and pharmacy-compounded medicines for human use is reduced from 5% to 0%. NAV |
| 1 Jan 2026 | Certain beef products become subject to the reduced 5% rate. NAV |
| 1 Jan 2024 | A new 0% VAT rate for daily newspapers published at least four times a week. NAV (in Hungarian) |
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 17 Sep 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.