This article settles what a VAT rates table actually requires from a merchant's platform rather than listing country percentages nobody measured here, because the only verified numbers on hand describe platform cost and the share of EU firms selling online, not tax rates themselves.
A merchant typing “EU VAT rates table” into a search bar usually expects a clean grid of country names next to percentages, and that expectation is where the trouble starts, because no single free source keeps that grid current and verified the way a pricing page or a statistics agency does. The honest answer is that VAT rates change by country and by product category more often than most reference pages admit, and the numbers that can actually be checked right now live somewhere else entirely: in platform pricing and in how many EU businesses sell online at all.
Shopify’s pricing page, loaded October 15, 2026, lists automatic VAT collection as a named feature, but it sits inside the Grow plan at € 69/mo, not inside Basic at € 24/mo. The same page offers a trial structured as 3 days free followed by € 1/month for 3 months, which is the cost of testing a store before any VAT tooling matters. Advanced, at € 289/mo, adds live third-party shipping rates and lets a merchant tailor the store by region, which is closer to what a business selling into several VAT jurisdictions would need. Plus pricing starts from € 2.100, with card rates from 2% + €0.25 EUR online, according to the same document.
Eurostat’s e-commerce statistics page, data extracted in February 2026 with a planned update in February 2027, shows that in 2024, 17.99% of EU enterprises conducted e-sales using only websites or apps. Another 2.9% used only EDI-type electronic data interchange sales, and 2.7% used some other combination the dataset does not fully break out here. The share of enterprises with any e-sales climbed from 18.93% in 2014 to 23.59% in 2024, a gain of ten years tracked in the same series. A narrower measure, enterprises whose turnover came from e-sales, moved from 16.43% to 19.49% over the same decade, a rise of 3.06 percentage points. Eurostat also notes that turnover recorded in 2024 was 0.34 different from some comparison point in the series, though the fact as logged does not specify the full context of that figure.
The Eurostat data breaks out at least one sector cleanly: in accommodation and food service activities, 99.05% of enterprises making e-sales in 2024 received orders via websites or apps. That is close to universal, and it says something a flat VAT percentage table never could, which is that how a business actually transacts varies enormously by sector even inside one tax zone. A merchant comparing VAT obligations across countries needs to know not just the rate but whether their sector transacts mostly online, mostly through intermediaries, or through EDI systems the Eurostat survey tracks separately.
The figures below come directly from Shopify’s own pricing page as loaded on October 15, 2026, and they show the tier structure a merchant would be choosing between while also sorting out VAT compliance.
| Plan | Monthly Price | Notable Feature Named on the Page |
|---|---|---|
| Trial | € 1/month for 3 months after 3 days free | Entry point before any paid tier |
| Basic | € 24/mo | For solo entrepreneurs, fraud protection and 3D Secure checkout |
| Grow | € 69/mo | GDPR compliance, automatic VAT collection, up to 5 staff accounts |
| Advanced | € 289/mo | Live third-party shipping rates, tailor store by region, up to 15 staff accounts |
| Plus | from € 2.100 | Choose which AI channels to sell in, card rates from 2% + €0.25 EUR online |
The figures in this table and in the two charts below rest on a direct read of Shopify’s pricing page in EUR and Eurostat’s e-commerce statistics page, both loaded October 15, 2026, with no modeling or estimation applied to either source.
A merchant who actually needs country-by-country VAT percentages should go to a tax authority or the European Commission’s own VAT rate database rather than a platform pricing page, and should treat anything here about Shopify’s tiers as a separate decision about software cost, not tax compliance.
Shopify's pricing page, loaded October 15, 2026, lists automatic VAT collection as a feature attached to its Grow plan at € 69/mo. The same page lists GDPR compliance alongside it, suggesting the two are bundled as compliance tools rather than sold separately. Basic, at € 24/mo, is described as built for solo entrepreneurs and the page does not list automatic VAT collection under that tier. Advanced, at € 289/mo, is positioned for global reach and sits above Grow in the same list. None of this is a tax rate, it is a platform feature tied to a specific price point.
Search results mix sources, and a site like this one only publishes numbers that were actually measured and checked against a document, which for this article means a pricing page and a statistics agency rather than a tax authority. Eurostat's e-commerce statistics page, extracted in February 2026, tracks how many enterprises sell online but does not publish country VAT percentages in the facts pulled here. Shopify's pricing page, loaded October 15, 2026, shows what a merchant pays for the software, not what a customer pays in tax. A genuine VAT rate table needs to be sourced from a tax authority document, and none was available for this piece.
Shopify's pricing page, loaded October 15, 2026, states the trial runs 3 days free, then € 1/month for 3 months. After that introductory period the plan reverts to standard pricing, which starts at € 24/mo for Basic according to the same page. A merchant selling across EU countries with different VAT rates would be on one of these paid tiers once the € 1/month window closes, since VAT handling tools sit on top of the base subscription rather than inside the trial price.
Eurostat's e-commerce statistics, data extracted in February 2026, put the share of EU enterprises with e-sales at 23.59% in 2024, up from 18.93% in 2014. In the accommodation and food service sector specifically, 99.05% of enterprises making e-sales in 2024 received orders via websites or apps. These figures describe how common online selling is, not what VAT rate applies in any one country, so they are useful for sizing the market a merchant competes in but not for filing a return.