Does the deposit you kept carry VAT? Six EU states, 2026 catering rates, and the CJEU line your own cancellation wording lands on.
VAT treatment of the fee you kept
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Which way the money runs
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Catering rate applied
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%
VAT inside the fees you keep each month
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EUR
Same, over twelve months
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EUR
VAT across the months already filed
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EUR
Late-payment interest on that
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EUR
Total at stake
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EUR
Days to your next VAT return
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The correction to make
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Full version: takes the worked figures away as a .csv row per run for your bookkeeper, and sets 30/14/1-day reminders before the return date you entered. $60 once · one licence key per person or team seat · 7-day full refund. An Irish tax adviser bills EUR 100-180 an hour for advisory work; German time fees run EUR 45-260 an hour (checked 2026-09-17). Get the full version — $60
The deposit-or-prepayment test Reads your cancellation clause as one of three wordings and names which side of CJEU C-277/05 and Article 65 it falls on, because the wording and not the amount decides whether any VAT is due.
2026 catering rates for six EU states Germany 7% since 1 January 2026 and Ireland 9% since 1 July 2026, next to France 10%, Italy 10%, Spain 10% and the Netherlands 9%, so a fee you kept last month is not priced at last year's rate.
Back months and interest Totals the VAT across every month you have already filed the same way and adds late-payment interest at the annual rate your own authority charges, so you see the exposure and not just this month's figure.
The sentence to change Prints the one correction to make - declare it, reclaim it, or rewrite the clause - in the words your bookkeeper needs for the next return.
Next-return clock Counts the days to your next VAT return, so you know whether this month's fees can still be corrected before the period closes.
CSV ledger and reminders (full version) Takes the worked figures away as a .csv row per run and sets 30, 14 and 1-day reminders before the return date you entered.
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Does the deposit you kept carry VAT? Six EU states, 2026 catering rates, and the CJEU line your own cancellation wording lands on.
An Irish tax adviser bills EUR 100-180 an hour for advisory work; German time fees run EUR 45-260 an hour (checked 2026-09-17).
It works out whether the no-show fee or deposit you kept on a cancelled restaurant booking carries VAT, at your state's 2026 catering rate, and totals the VAT and the late-payment interest across every month you have already filed the same way. It ends with the one correction to make before your next return.
Who is it for?
Restaurant owners in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands who take a card deposit through a reservation widget, and the bookkeepers who file their returns. If your booking page takes money before the guest arrives and sometimes keeps it, this is the question nobody has answered for you.
Why will a free chatbot not do?
Chatbots quote the catering rate, which is the easy half. The hard half is your own cancellation clause: money kept as fixed compensation for a cancelled booking sits outside VAT under CJEU C-277/05, while a deposit credited to the bill is a taxable payment on account under Article 65. Same amount, opposite answer.
What is free and what needs the key?
Free is the whole calculation, no key and no limit: treatment, rate, VAT per month and per year, the back months, the interest and the correction line, in the popup or on the web page. The full version at $60 adds a .csv row you keep and 30/14/1-day reminders before your return date.
What would it cost to ask a person instead?
An Irish tax adviser bills EUR 100-180 an hour for advisory work and German time fees run EUR 45-260 an hour. This question rarely fits in one hour, because it turns on reading your booking terms rather than looking up a rate. The extension is $60 once, with a 7-day full refund.
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