Eat-in and takeaway VAT calculator

Enter a week of takings by type. The calculator shows the VAT due and sets it against the 12.5% catering flat rate.

Food and drink eaten on the premises (£, including VAT)

Hot takeaway (£, including VAT)

Cold takeaway food (£)

Zero-rated: sandwiches, salads and cold food to take away

Takeaway items always standard-rated (£, including VAT)

Crisps, sweets and bottled water

Figures use 2026/27 rates and simple assumptions, for planning. Ask us to run it on your own figures.

How the figures are worked out

Eat-in food and drink and hot takeaway are standard-rated at 20%, under VAT Notice 709/1.
Cold takeaway food is zero-rated unless it is a type that is always standard-rated.
VAT is one sixth of each standard-rated sale.
The flat rate figure is 12.5% of all takings including VAT, HMRC's percentage for catering services including restaurants and takeaways.

Send us a month of till reports and the wage bill and we will work out your real margins, labour cost and VAT position.