VAT rates based on the ec.europa.eu website list. This gem parses information on the website and provides interface to the data.

Format of the data:

code: 'ES' [required string, ISO 3166 format country code]
name: 'Spain' [required string, english name of the country]
rate: 21.0 [required float, standard rate percentage]
regions: [optional array]
  name: 'Canary Islands' [required string, name of the region in english]
  rate: 0 [required float or integer, standard rate percentage in the region, might be 0 or >= float number]
  reduced_rates: [optional hash]
    category: 'Taux intermédiaire' [required string, category of the reduced taxes]
    rate: 10.0 [required float, rate of the reduced tax in percentage]

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'vat_rates'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install vat_rates

To get current VAT rates from ec.europa.eu, just invoke following command:

VatRates.fetch

Load from file or fetch from server:

VatRates.load(filepath = nil)

Save to json file:

VatRates.save(filepath)

• Fetch data in JSON format from http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/tic/public/vatRates/vatratesSearch.html website
• Save data in JSON file
• Load data from JSON file or by fetching from the website

• http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/taxation/vat/how_vat_works/index_en.htm - official information about VAT
• http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/taxation/vat/how_vat_works/telecom/index_en.htm - official information about VAT 2015 changes
• http://rachelandrew.github.io/eu-vat/ - information about the VAT 2015 changes
• https://github.com/staaky/vatrates - PHP, JS and JSON versions of VAT rates (without regions)
• https://github.com/modmore/euvatrates.com - JSON version of VAT rates (without regions)
• https://github.com/kdeldycke/vat-rates - VAT rates with history and regions in CSV
• https://github.com/adamcooke/vat-rates - Ruby library to provide VAT rates for all EU countries in DSL format

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/dmitry/vat_rates/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request