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VAT Engine

EU VAT API for ecommerce, SaaS, and headless commerce

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VAT Engine is an EU VAT calculation and compliance platform for developers, ecommerce businesses, SaaS products, and headless commerce.

It provides a REST API and web dashboard for VAT calculations, VAT rate lookup, product tax classes, VAT-inclusive and VAT-exclusive pricing, SME VAT thresholds, transaction records, and source-aware reporting.

Date-indexed rate lookup is available where recorded/imported history provides coverage. VAT Engine also includes OSS/IOSS preparation workflows, multi-store reporting, managed source profiles, and an alpha Shopify integration.

The product is currently available with free alpha access while the API, compliance workflows, and integrations continue to be validated.

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Features

  • EU VAT calculation API
  • Current and date-indexed VAT rate lookup
  • Product tax classes
  • VAT-inclusive and VAT-exclusive pricing
  • SME VAT thresholds
  • Transaction history and source profiles
  • OSS/IOSS preparation workflows
  • Multi-store and multi-channel reporting
  • Shopify integration
  • Scoped API keys and account security

Use Cases

  • Add EU VAT calculation to a headless checkout
  • Integrate VAT logic into SaaS subscription billing
  • Resolve rates by country, tax class, and transaction date
  • Track VAT calculations by store or sales channel
  • Prepare OSS/IOSS reporting data for review
  • Import and review Shopify commerce data
  • Build internal finance or compliance tools on top of the API

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I started VAT Engine because EU VAT becomes much harder once you move beyond a simple rate lookup. Developers end up dealing with product tax classes, transaction dates, multiple stores, OSS/IOSS workflows, and the need to understand later why a certain VAT result was produced. I’m building VAT Engine as a developer-first API and dashboard around those problems. It’s currently in free alpha, and I’m especially interested in feedback from developers and ecommerce teams using VAT in real integrations.

Keeping a record of why a VAT result was produced is the part most tools skip. We hit the same problem with mileage rates: when the rate changes, old transactions have to keep the rate they were calculated with. If a rate in your table gets corrected later, does an existing transaction record keep its original rate and source, or get recalculated?

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Building PZERO, saving you money - pzero...

Resolving EU VAT rates by country, product tax class, and transaction date through one API, with OSS/IOSS preparation built in, covers the part of checkout tax that usually gets hand-rolled. When AI spend starts to matter for the business, PZERO at pzero.studio is an option.

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Solo founder and software engineer build...

I started VAT Engine because EU VAT becomes much harder once you move beyond a simple rate lookup. Developers end up dealing with product tax classes, transaction dates, multiple stores, OSS/IOSS workflows, and the need to understand later why a certain VAT result was produced. I’m building VAT Engine as a developer-first API and dashboard around those problems. It’s currently in free alpha, and I’m especially interested in feedback from developers and ecommerce teams using VAT in real integrations.

Keeping a record of why a VAT result was produced is the part most tools skip. We hit the same problem with mileage rates: when the rate changes, old transactions have to keep the rate they were calculated with. If a rate in your table gets corrected later, does an existing transaction record keep its original rate and source, or get recalculated?

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Building PZERO, saving you money - pzero...

Resolving EU VAT rates by country, product tax class, and transaction date through one API, with OSS/IOSS preparation built in, covers the part of checkout tax that usually gets hand-rolled. When AI spend starts to matter for the business, PZERO at pzero.studio is an option.

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