GR Value added tax

Invoicing in Greece

A business registered in Greece charges VAT at a standard rate of ⁨24%⁩, invoices in ⁨EUR⁩, and issues documents under names and numbering rules that are specific to Greece. DocsOrigin carries all of that as registry data, so choosing Greece once configures the tax, the document set, the numbering and the layout together.

Invoicing in Greece is free forever with DocsOrigin: every document type, every export, no card and no trial.

Tax in Greece

VAT 24%
Reduced and zero rates 13% 6% 0%

How reliable is this figure

Graded high: this rate has been checked against a tax-authority or official source. It is still your responsibility to confirm it before you rely on it.

Whatever the grade, your own setting always wins — a rate you enter overrides the registry everywhere, including on documents already dated in the past.

Document types recognised in Greece

These are the documents DocsOrigin will offer a business registered in Greece, under the names used there. A type that has no meaning locally is not offered at all.

Tilbud

Et prisbud. Ikke et momsdokument og ikke registreret i dine bøger før det accepteres.

Pro forma-faktura

En betalingsanmodning. Giver ikke klienten ret til at fratrække moms.

Momsfaktura

Momsdokumentet selv. Låst når det er udstedt.

Faktura-kvittering

Faktura og betaling i ét dokument, når du bliver betalt på stedet.

Kvittering

Bekræfter modtagne penge mod en faktura.

Kreditnota

Den eneste lovlige måde at annullere eller reducere et dokument der allerede var udstedt.

Følgeseddel

Varer overdraget uden gebyr.

Tax identifier

On a document issued in Greece the identifier is labelled VAT number. It is printed in the header of every tax document, isolated left-to-right so it reads correctly in any interface language.

Expected format ^EL\d{9}$

DocsOrigin checks this identifier's structure as you type — a wrong number on an issued document cannot be corrected by editing it.

As an EU member state, a Greece number follows the EU VAT pattern and can be checked for structure before you rely on it for a reverse-charge supply.

Numbering

Documents in Greece are expected to run in an unbroken sequence. DocsOrigin allocates the number at the moment of issue — never earlier — so a draft that is abandoned does not burn a number and leave a gap you have to explain.

Prefix, padding and yearly reset are configurable per document type, and the series is kept separately for each type.

How Greece writes dates and money

Set the country and these stop being settings you have to think about. The examples below are rendered by the same formatter the documents use.

Date
21/09/2026
Amount
12 345,67 €
Currency
EUR
Minor units
2

⁨EUR⁩ is written with ⁨2⁩ decimal places, and every amount is stored as a whole number of minor units. ⛔ Money never touches floating point.

Selling from Greece to another EU member state

A business customer in another member state with a valid VAT number is a reverse-charge supply: no tax is charged and the document has to say so, with the customer's number on it. A private customer in another member state is not. DocsOrigin suggests the treatment and prints the legal wording and the reason.

Special rules in Greece

Structured e-invoicing myDATA

Invoice data must be transmitted to the AADE myDATA platform.

A worked example in Greece

Three lines, priced identically everywhere, run through the real tax engine with the Greece registry entry applied. This is what the document looks like there.

Tilbud Pro forma-faktura Momsfaktura Faktura-kvittering Kvittering Kreditnota
Northwind Studio
VAT number 000000000 · Greece
Momsfaktura
Nr. 2026-0042
Fakturér til Riverbank Coffee
Beskrivelse Antal Enhedspris Total
Designarbejde 12 45,00 € 540,00 €
Brand guidelines 1 380,00 € 380,00 €
Support retainer 3 60,00 € 180,00 €
Nettototal 1 100,00 €
VAT 24% 264,00 €
Total 1 364,00 €

Invoicing in Greece — questions

What tax rate do I charge in Greece?

The standard VAT rate recorded for Greece is ⁨24%⁩. Reduced rates may apply to particular supplies, and your own setting always overrides ours.

Which document do I issue to a customer in Greece?

The document set recognised in Greece is listed above, under the names used locally. For a paid sale the usual document is Momsfaktura, and a mistake on an issued document is corrected with a credit note rather than an edit.

Does DocsOrigin cost anything in Greece?

No. DocsOrigin is free forever for businesses in Greece as everywhere else: no subscription, no card, no trial, no per-document fee and no export fee. Optional professional services are the only thing that is ever charged for, and they are quoted per project.

What if the rate for Greece is wrong or changes?

Set your own rate in the business settings and it overrides the registry immediately, for new documents and for any date. Rates are applied by document date, so an old document keeps the rate that applied when it was issued.

Also billing in ⁨EUR⁩

The currency is shared, but the tax, the document names and the numbering rules are not. Each of these has its own entry.

Issue your first Greece document

Choose Greece once. The tax, the document names, the numbering, the date order and the currency format are configured together, and it costs nothing.

Free forever for businesses Opret din første faktura

This page describes what DocsOrigin does with the registry entry for Greece. It is not tax advice, and it is not a statement of Greece law. Confirm your obligations with your accountant or the tax authority. Registry data as of ⁨2026-08⁩.