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VAT calculator
Both directions of the value-added tax calculation: add the tax to a net price, or work it back out of a gross price. Set the 21 % or 12 % rate with a button.
Price without VAT → with VAT
You know the net price and need the price for the customer.
- Price with VAT
- — Kč
- Of which VAT
- — Kč
Price with VAT → without VAT
You know the final price and need the tax base.
- Price without VAT
- — Kč
- Of which VAT
- — Kč
How VAT is calculated
- Adding the tax: price with VAT = price without VAT × (1 + rate / 100). A thousand crowns without tax is, at 21 %,
1,000 × 1.21 = 1,210 Kč. - Removing the tax: price without VAT = price with VAT / (1 + rate / 100). From 1,210 Kč with tax, the base is
1,210 / 1.21 = 1,000 Kč.
A common mistake: you cannot calculate the tax from a VAT-inclusive price as 21 % of the final amount. The tax is 21 % of the base, not of the price with tax, which is why you divide instead of multiplying.
VAT rates in the Czech Republic
Since 2024 there are two rates:
- 21 % standard: most goods and services: electronics, clothing, cars, consulting, IT, marketing, construction work outside housing.
- 12 % reduced: selected items from the annexes to the VAT Act: food (except most beverages), medicines and medical devices, heating and cooling, water and sewerage, accommodation and catering services, public passenger transport, construction work for housing, magazines and newspapers.
Books (printed and electronic) are exempt from VAT; residential rent, financial and insurance services and healthcare are also exempt.
A simple rule: whatever the law doesn't explicitly list under the reduced rate or among the exemptions belongs in the standard 21 %.
Where to go next
You can do the maths. But what next? How to turn customers who bought once into customers who buy repeatedly is the subject of the book Opakovaný prodej.