VA No general indirect tax

Invoicing in Vatican City

Vatican City has no general indirect tax on domestic sales, so an invoice issued there carries no tax line at all. Documents are issued in ⁨EUR⁩. DocsOrigin drops the tax column instead of printing a zero — a tax line that is always zero teaches your client to ignore the one that is not.

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

Tax in Vatican City

Tax No general indirect tax on domestic sales

How reliable is this figure

Graded medium: this rate is believed current but has not been re-checked against an official Vatican City source recently. Verify it before issuing, and override it in your settings if it has moved.

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 Vatican City

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

Offerte

Een geprijsd aanbod. Geen belastingdocument en niet geregistreerd in uw boeken tot aanvaarding.

Pro forma factuur

Een verzoek om betaling. Geeft de klant niet het recht om belasting af te trekken.

Factuur

Het belastingdocument zelf. Vergrendeld na uitgifte.

Factuur-kwitantie

Factuur en betaling in één document, voor wanneer u ter plekke wordt betaald.

Kwitantie

Bevestigt geldsontvangst tegen een factuur.

Creditnota

De enige wettelijke manier om een reeds uitgegeven document te annuleren of te verminderen.

Afleveringsnota

Goederen overhandigd zonder vergoeding.

Tax identifier

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

No structural check is applied for Vatican City: the format is accepted as entered, because a wrong rule that rejects a valid number is worse than no rule.

Numbering

Documents in Vatican City 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 Vatican City 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.

A worked example in Vatican City

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

Offerte Pro forma factuur Factuur Factuur-kwitantie Kwitantie Creditnota
Northwind Studio
Tax ID 000000000 · Vatican City
Factuur
Nr. 2026-0042
Factureren aan Riverbank Coffee
Omschrijving Aantal Eenheidsprijs Totaal
Ontwerpwerk 12 € 45,00 € 540,00
Merkrichtlijnen 1 € 380,00 € 380,00
Ondersteuningscontract 3 € 60,00 € 180,00
Nettototaal € 1.100,00
TaxGeen
Totaal € 1.100,00

Invoicing in Vatican City — questions

What tax rate do I charge in Vatican City?

Vatican City has no general indirect tax on domestic sales, so the document carries no tax line. If you sell into a country that does have one, the treatment is decided by where the customer is, not by where you are.

Which document do I issue to a customer in Vatican City?

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

Does DocsOrigin cost anything in Vatican City?

No. DocsOrigin is free forever for businesses in Vatican City 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 Vatican City 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 Vatican City document

Choose Vatican City 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 Maak uw eerste factuur

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