UK import duty & VAT calculator
Enter your goods value and HS code — get duty, import VAT and total tax owed, using the current UK tariff schedule.
Stop recalculating this per shipment: save your HS codes once and duty runs automatically on every container.
Save it as a real shipment →How the tax is actually calculated
UK tariff, 2026 — the same maths the border runs
Classification drives everything — the duty rate, any measures, and what evidence you need. Our free lookup searches the tariff in plain English.
Goods + freight + insurance. Duty is NOT charged on goods alone — missing this understates the bill on every shipment.
At this product's 4% rate. Different products in the same container each use their own rate — never a blended average.
20% on the duty-inclusive value — tax on tax. Paid at the border by default — unless you use postponed VAT accounting (see step 5).
VAT-registered businesses recover import VAT through their return — and with postponed VAT accounting (PVA) it never leaves your bank at all: declared and reclaimed on the same return. Either way it's cash flow, not cost.
Common questions
What if I can't find my HS code?expand_more
Search by what the product is made of and does, not its brand name. For genuinely ambiguous products, ask your broker or apply for a ruling — classification is legally your responsibility.
Do samples and low-value orders pay duty?expand_more
Most countries have de-minimis thresholds under which duty (and sometimes VAT) is waived — but commercial quantities split into small parcels to dodge duty is evasion, not planning.
Is import VAT always recoverable?expand_more
Only if you're VAT registered and the goods are for your business. Unregistered sellers should treat import VAT as a real cost in every margin calculation.
The taxman is precise. Now you are too.
Duty rates don't negotiate and VAT doesn't estimate — the only safe position is to be exactly as precise as the border is.