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Tax classes and regimes

A class says what kind of thing you are selling. A regime says what tax applies. Rules pick between them automatically.

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Travel has awkward VAT. Accommodation is often reduced-rate, packaged travel may fall under a margin scheme, and a VAT-registered business in another EU country pays nothing at all.

Click Settings, then Taxes.

The taxes settings page showing four tax classes for standard, accommodation, travel margin and intra-EU B2B, and below them a tax policy profile with prioritised rules
Classes and their default regimes at the top, the rules that choose between them underneath.

Classes and regimes

A tax class describes what you are selling. A tax regime is the treatment applied. Each class has a default regime.

In the example above:

  • Standard uses Standard VAT at 21%.
  • Accommodation uses Reduced VAT at 11%.
  • Travel margin uses the margin scheme for packaged travel.
  • Intra-EU B2B uses reverse charge at 0%.

You tag a product with a class. The class decides the tax. That is the whole idea.

Tax policy profiles

Sometimes the right regime depends on the sale, not just the product. A profile holds rules that decide automatically.

Each rule has a Priority, a Side (sell or buy), what it Applies to, a Condition, and the Tax regime it selects.

Rules run in priority order

Lower numbers win. Reading the example profile top to bottom:

  1. Priority 10: if the customer is an intra-EU B2B partner, use reverse charge at 0%. Always.
  2. Priority 20: if the sale has accommodation and the accommodation is in Romania, use reduced VAT at 11%.
  3. Priority 100: otherwise, standard VAT at 21%.

The first rule that matches wins, so the specific cases sit at the top and the catch-all sits at the bottom.

Always keep a catch-all

The last rule should apply to everything, with a condition of Always. Without it, a sale that matches nothing has no tax treatment.

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