France VAT %
 

I'd like to know the VAT rate in France on hotel rooms. Is it 19.6% or 5.5%? Or other?
Is the rate on restaurant meals 19.6%?

VAT refund:

I know that if I spend more 175€ at one location/store/place of business I could be reimbursed for the VAT eventually. Is the same reimbursement rule applicable if for example, I spend 4 nights in one hotel at a rate of 100€ per night?

Thank you,

VAT refunds are only on items purchased and taken or shipped out of the EU. The VAT on meal is included in the price.

VAT (as StephenG says) is not refunded for meals -- or for hotels, or car rentals, or petrol, or air/train/ferry tickets, or anything else you cannot physically show to the revenue officer at your departure airport, or is shipped directly out of the country by the merchant.

Thank you for answering my second question regarding the VAT refund rules, regulations and process but does someone knows the answer to my first one?:

I'd like to know the VAT rate in France on hotel rooms. Is it 19.6% or 5.5%? Or what?

Thank you

France has two VAT rates, 19.6 and 5.5%. Hotel is 5.5%, restaurant meal & drinks 19.6%, take-out food 5.5%.

Thank you for the reply.

BTW I found this site regarding the VAT rates in Europe:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/taxation_c...2002-5-1en.pdf

Hi

But hotels (and b&b, campsites, etc) also attract a small nightly tax de sejour that varies by location.

Peter
The Languedoc Page
http://tlp.netfirms.com

Cities do have hotel tax, but is it really small (about one euro) and is not VAT and isn't refundable, either.

Can I claim my VAT on wines? If yes, where should I claim those at? I'll be flying home from Amsterdam. It looks like if things are very expensive as they sound, that would be my only splurges.

The entire 19.6 is not refunded. Its somewhere around 12.5 percent but I cant remember the exact figure.