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.
Switzerland | |
| standard rate | 8.1% All taxable supplies not subject to the reduced rate or the special accommodation rate. This includes most goods and services, alcoholic beverages and restaurant services; food supplied as part of restaurant services is also subject to the standard rate. |
| special accommodation rate / reduced rate | 3.8% Accommodation services in the hotel and similar accommodation sector. The special rate covers accommodation including breakfast, even when breakfast is invoiced separately. 2.6% Includes foodstuffs other than alcoholic beverages, tap water, cattle, poultry and fish for human consumption, grains, seeds and plants, animal feed, fertilisers and pesticides, medicines, non-advertising books, newspapers and magazines in printed or electronic form, and menstrual hygiene products. Certain agricultural services and non-commercial services supplied by radio and television companies are also subject to the reduced rate. |
For supplies of goods, the valleys of Samnaun and Sampuoir are treated as outside Swiss VAT territory. Services supplied there, such as hotel, restaurant and consultancy services, are nevertheless treated as domestic supplies. Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein form a common VAT territory.
| Past changes: | |
| 1 Jan 2025 | Menstrual hygiene products move to the reduced 2.6% VAT rate. A wider VAT reform also introduces platform taxation for qualifying online marketplaces, new VAT exemptions including certain resold travel services, and the option for eligible businesses to file VAT annually. Swiss Federal Tax Administration |
| 1 Jan 2024 | The standard VAT rate increases from 7.7% to 8.1%, the reduced rate from 2.5% to 2.6%, and the special accommodation rate from 3.7% to 3.8%. Swiss Federal Tax Administration |
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
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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.