compare_vat
VAT and GST rates by country, with the authority page each was read from
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Standard and reduced VAT/GST rates for the 41-country spine, hand-curated from each national tax authority's published page and served with that page's URL and the date it was checked, so a figure can be verified rather than trusted. Given countries (two or more ISO alpha-2 codes), returns each country's tax kind and name, standard rate, reduced rates where the authority lists them, registration threshold where known, and its source; an entry read from a secondary source because the authority's page could not be fetched is marked confidence: "secondary". Without countries, ranks standard rates lowest first. Countries with no single national rate — the US (state sales taxes), Brazil (state and federal taxes in transition to a dual VAT) and Malaysia (sales and service tax) — are described by kind, excluded from the ranking and named in excluded, never given 0%. Reviewed at least yearly; not a live feed. Statutory figures for information only — not legal or tax advice; every response says so first.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| countries | string | no | Comma-separated ISO alpha-2 codes, two or more (e.g. "GB,US,DE"). Omit to get a ranking instead. |
| sort | string | no | Ranking direction. Ignored when `countries` is given. |
| limit | number | no | Return at most this many countries in a ranking. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"countries": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Comma-separated ISO alpha-2 codes, two or more (e.g. \"GB,US,DE\"). Omit to get a ranking instead."
},
"sort": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"highest",
"lowest"
],
"default": "lowest",
"description": "Ranking direction. Ignored when `countries` is given."
},
"limit": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Return at most this many countries in a ranking."
}
}
}