Countries with the Highest VAT Rates 2025
Key Findings
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Countries with the Highest VAT Rates 2025Hungary has the world's highest standard VAT rate at 27%, a clear outlier that sits a full percentage point above the next country. Finland is second at 25.5% following a 2024 increase, and then a large cluster of countries share the 25% rate: Croatia, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Below them, Iceland and Greece charge 24%, while Poland and Portugal levy 23%. Every country in the top ten is European, reflecting the continent's long-standing reliance on broad consumption taxes to fund large welfare states - the same countries that tend to top government-spending rankings. High VAT rates are often paired with reduced rates on essentials to soften their impact on lower-income households, but the headline rates shown here are among the steepest consumption taxes in the world.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- Tax Foundation / national tax authorities
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 10 observations
- Measure
- Standard VAT / GST Rate 2025 (%)
- Last updated
- 13 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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