VAT Rates Skill

Overview

Look up VAT rates by country for checkout, invoicing or accounting. Rates are compiled from two maintained open VAT datasets and refreshed weekly, and each response says the date the rates took effect. Send a date to get the rate that applied on a past invoice, or a postcode to catch special VAT zones like the Canary Islands. It returns rates, not totals: multiply your net amount by the rate to get the VAT.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as VATRatesSkill. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.

{
  "name": "VATRatesSkill",
  "arguments": {
    "country": "DE"
  }
}

You do not name the tool yourself; the model picks it. Asking about DE in the terms this skill covers is enough for it to reach for VATRatesSkill on its own — naming it explicitly also works, and is the way to force the call.

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp

Per-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.

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{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "country": "DE",
    "countryName": "Germany",
    "currency": "EUR",
    "effectiveFrom": "2021-01-01",
    "rates": {
      "standard": 19,
      "reduced": 7,
      "reduced2": null,
      "superReduced": null,
      "parking": null
    },
    "exception": null
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.

A call costs 2 credits each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Use cases

E-commerce Checkout

Calculate correct VAT for customers based on their country and region during checkout

Invoice Generation

Apply accurate VAT rates when generating invoices for EU and international customers

Tax Compliance

Ensure your application uses up-to-date VAT rates for regulatory compliance

Accounting Software

Look up historical VAT rates for past transactions and audits

Other ways to use VAT Rates Skill

Set up VAT Rates Skill on VerveKit, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveKit account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

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