VAT Calculator

Calculate European VAT rates. Designed to deal with the MOSS directive after 1 January 2015. For dates prior to that, will use current VAT rules.

npm install vat-calculator

Limitations

• Only deals with standard rate VAT.
• VAT rates are currently hard-coded.
• This library only deals with European based suppliers registered for VAT.

Services Used

• Octobat's MOSS Service
• VIES VAT Number Validation
• The library has logic to deal with both of these services failing. We don't like turning customers away just because a downstream service is not available!

Logic

• Before 1 January 2015, the library will return the supplier's local VAT rate for European customers, and zero VAT rate for international customers.
• After 1 January 2015, the library will use the MOSS rules.
• If the customer's VAT number needs to be validated, the Octobat service is used. It also uses the VAT rate from Octobat, rather than the ones hardcoded into the service.
• If Octobat fails, the service will failover to using the VIES service, but the VAT rate used will be the local, hardcoded rate for the customer's country.
• If VIES also fails and the customer has a VAT number we presume that it is valid.

Usage

var VatCalculator = require('vat-calculator');
 
/* Initialise the library using the suppliers VAT country and number */
var vatCalc = new VatCalculator("GB", "GB107328000");
 
/* Supports callbacks */
/* Pass in the customer's country and VAT number */
vatCalc.calculateVat("IE", "", function(err, vatRate) {
    // vatRate -> 20 before 1 Jan 2015, 23 after
});
 
vatCalc.calculateVat("GB", "GB1234567", function(err, vatRate) {
    // vatRate -> 20 before and after 1 Jan 2015
});
 
/* Also supports promises */
vatCalc.calculateVat("US", "").then(function(vatRate) {
    // vatRate -> 0 before and after 1 Jan 2015
});
 
/* Will validate against Octobat or VIES if available
/* Invalid VAT number */
vatCalc.calculateVat("IE", "0000000000000", function(err, vatRate) {
    // vatRate -> 20 before 1 Jan 2015, 23 after
});
 
/* Valid VAT number */
vatCalc.calculateVat("IE", "IE6556973V", function(err, vatRate) {
    // vatRate -> 20 before 1 Jan 2015, 0 after
});

Specifying a transaction date

The transaction date can be explicitely set by passing it as a third parameter to the calculateVat method.

var VatCalculator = require('vat-calculator');
 
/* Initialise the library using the suppliers VAT country and number */
var vatCalc = new VatCalculator("GB", "GB107328000");
 
var transactionDate = new Date();
vatCalc.calculateVat("GB", "GB1234567", transactionDate, function(err, vatRate) {
    //
});
 

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014, Andrew Newdigate

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