eu-vat

Description

This eu-vat module is a tiny package the helps retrieve vat rates for EU countries. It makes use of the json-vat api to retrieve the most recent vat rates for EU countries. This library can be easily plugged into your ecommerce platforms if you need to calculate cost related to vat e.g. shiiping cost etc.

Developers Guide

Dependencies

• NPM 6.x
• Node 8.x

NPM

This package has been published on NPM and is freely available according to the MIT license. To install via npm simply run npm install eu-vat.

NPM Package Usage

const EuroVat = require('eu-vat');
const vat = new EuroVat();


vat.getRates('FI').then((rates) => {
  console.log(rates);
  // Do something with rates
});

/* Alternative style using async await */
const getRates = async () => {
  const rates = await vat.getRates('RO');
  console.log(rates);
  // Do something with rates
}

The utility returns a resolved or rejected promise.

Available function

This module exposes one primary functions getRates. The getRates function accepts just one argument countryCode. The get rate function returns a promise.

Accepted method argument

The countryCode {Optional} - This refers to the ISO2 country code of the European country whose tax rate is to be retrieved. This argument is optional i.e if no countryCode is passed, the function will return a list countaining objects of each countries tax rates. This argument compulsorily has to be a string if passed of course :). Kindly see the next section for a list of supported countries.

Returned Value

The returned value largely depends on if a countryCode is passed, however the returned value is always a Promise, although using the async/await syntax one could easily mimick real time data handling. For a getRates request with a countryCode passed, say Romanian countryCode RO, the following should be an expected response.

{ 
  name: 'Romania',
  countryCode: 'RO',
  periods:
  { effective_from: '2017-01-01',
    rates: { 
      reduced1: 5, reduced2: 9, standard: 19 
    }
  } 
}

Supported Countries

name: 'Spain', countryCode: 'ES'

name: 'Bulgaria', countryCode: 'BG'

name: 'Hungary', countryCode: 'HU'

name: 'Latvia', countryCode: 'LV'

name: 'Poland', countryCode: 'PL'

name: 'United Kingdom', countryCode: 'GB'

name: 'Czech Republic', countryCode: 'CZ'

name: 'Malta', countryCode: 'MT'

name: 'Italy', countryCode: 'IT'

name: 'Slovenia', countryCode: 'SI'

name: 'Ireland', countryCode: 'IE'

name: 'Sweden', countryCode: 'SE'

name: 'Denmark', countryCode: 'DK'

name: 'Finland', countryCode: 'FI'

name: 'Cyprus', countryCode: 'CY'

name: 'Luxembourg', countryCode: 'LU'

name: 'Romania', countryCode: 'RO'

name: 'Estonia', countryCode: 'EE'

name: 'Greece', countryCode: 'GR'

name: 'Lithuania', countryCode: 'LT'

name: 'France', countryCode: 'FR'

name: 'Croatia', countryCode: 'HR'

name: 'Belgium', countryCode: 'BE'

name: 'Netherlands', countryCode: 'NL'

name: 'Slovakia', countryCode: 'SK'

name: 'Germany', countryCode: 'DE'

name: 'Portugal', countryCode: 'PT'

name: 'Austria', countryCode: 'AT'