Switzerland VAT Rates

The standard MWST rate in Switzerland is 8.1%, with reduced rates of 2.6% and 3.8%. The European Commission publishes its dated rate series for the EU-27 only, so there is no rate history to show here – the rates below are the current ones, maintained against national sources.

Switzerland VAT Rates in Force Today

Standard rate: 8.1%
Reduced rates: 2.6%, 3.8%
Super-reduced rate: None
Parking rate: None
Local name: Mehrwertsteuer (MWST)
Currency: CHF
VAT number format: CHE-NNN.NNN.NNN (+ MWST/TVA/IVA)
EU membership: Outside the EU-27

Checking a Swiss VAT number rather than a rate? The number format, its regex and verified example numbers are on the Switzerland VAT number page.

Company and Tax Identifiers in Switzerland

What the registrar, the register and each identifier are called, in every official language and in English. These are names, not numbers.

Company registrar: German: Eidgenössisches Amt für das Handelsregister
French: Office fédéral du registre du commerce
English: Federal Commercial Registry Office
Company register: German: Handelsregister
French: registre du commerce
Italian: registro di commercio
English: commercial register
Register number: German: Unternehmens-Identifikationsnummer
French: numéro d'identification des entreprises
Italian: numero d'identificazione delle imprese
English: Unique Enterprise Identification Number
Tax ID: German: Unternehmens-Identifikationsnummer
French: numéro d'identification des entreprises
Italian: numero d'identificazione delle imprese
English: Unique Enterprise Identification Number
VAT ID: German: MWST-Nummer
French: numéro TVA
English: VAT number

Each name is checked against the registrar’s or tax authority’s own pages or legal text. The same names ship in eu-vat-rates-data.json and in GET /v1/rates.

Use this VAT rate in your application

Copy a package, CDN, or keyless HTTP example for CH.

import { getRate } from 'eu-vat-rates-data'

const rate = getRate('CH')
console.log(rate.standard, rate.reduced)

The CDN URL is cached for distribution. Use a version tag instead of @main when you need reproducible builds.

Where This Data Comes From

The Commission databases behind the rest of this dataset cover the EU-27, so Switzerland is absent from them. These rates are maintained against the national tax authority when official changes are published.

Current rates for all 45 VAT jurisdictions are one JSON file, MIT licensed, no API key: eu-vat-rates-data.json. Dataset version 29 Sep 2026; for non-EU entries this is not a claim that the national rate changed or was re-verified on that date.

No dated rate history is published for Switzerland. Rate history covers the EU-27, where the Commission publishes a dated series – see Germany VAT rates for what that looks like. For Swiss filings, confirm with the tax authority or an adviser.

The update scripts, source data, and audit trail are public in the canonical GitHub repository. If this dataset is useful in your project, a star helps other developers find it.

Switzerland VAT Rates