VAT Rates Skill

Overview

VAT Rates aggregates data from multiple authoritative sources to provide comprehensive VAT information. Includes all rate types (standard, reduced, super-reduced, parking) and handles regional exceptions like the Canary Islands and other special tax zones.

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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.

Tool call

{
  "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"
    }
  }
}

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.

Argument	Type	Description
`country`Required	string	ISO 2-letter country code (e.g., DE, FR, ES) length 2–2
`date`OptionalPremium	string	Look up rate effective on this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Defaults to today. date
`postcode`OptionalPremium	string	Check for regional exceptions (e.g., Canary Islands, Ceuta)

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.

Result

{
  "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.

Field	Type	Example	Description
`country`	string	`DE`	ISO 2-letter country code for the queried country
`countryName`	string	`Germany`	Full official name of the country
`currency`	string	`EUR`	Currency code used in the country
`effectiveFrom`	string	`2021-01-01`	Date when the VAT rates became effective
`rates`	object	`{…}`	VAT rates in effect for the country on the lookup date, or for the postcode's special region when an exception applies
`rates.standard`	number	`19`	Standard VAT rate percentage
`rates.reduced`	number	`7`	Reduced VAT rate percentage for eligible goods
`rates.reduced2`	object	`null`	Second reduced VAT rate if applicable
`rates.superReduced`	object	`null`	Super-reduced VAT rate for essential items
`rates.parking`	object	`null`	Parking fee VAT rate if separately applied
`exception`	object	`null`	Regional VAT exception details like special zones

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.

Status	What it means
`400` / `422`	The arguments did not validate. The message names the offending one.
`401`	The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
`403`	Blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Never a bad identity.
`404`	This skill is not part of VerveKit. Check the catalog.
`429`	Out of credits, or a brief rate limit. The message tells them apart.

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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