---
title: "VAT and payer status"
description: "Bulido handles companies both with and without VAT. How to set your payer status and default VAT rate, and what happens to quotes when the status changes."
locale: en
category: settings
slug: vat-poland
updatedAt: 2026-05-06
---
# VAT and payer status

In Bulido, you decide whether your company is a VAT payer and what default VAT rate goes on quotes. Both settings live under **Settings → Taxes**.

## Are you a VAT payer

The **Taxes** section starts with the question **Are you a VAT payer?**. Enabled by default (most established construction companies above the annual revenue threshold are VAT-registered).

If you're **not a VAT payer** (e.g. exempt under the small-business threshold), turn the switch off. Then:

- The **Default VAT rate** field disappears from the form.
- Quotes stop showing the VAT rate and gross totals.
- Bulido automatically forces the price display to **net** (with no VAT to add, gross would equal net, and labelling it as gross would be misleading).

## Default VAT rate

If you're a VAT payer, the **Default VAT rate** field takes a percentage value that becomes the starting point for new quotes.

- The standard rate is typically **19%** (Mehrwertsteuer for German companies, or your country's equivalent).
- For some reduced-rate residential work, the rate may be lower (e.g. **7%** in Germany).

Bulido accepts values from 0 to 100. If you work with mixed rates across quotes (e.g. residential 8% + commercial 23%), set the most common one as the default.

## What happens when you change the status

Turning the VAT-payer status off isn't just a number flip. Bulido adjusts a few things automatically:

1. Hides the **Default VAT rate** field and clears it.
2. Switches **Quote price display** to net if it was on gross.
3. New quotes generate the PDF and email without VAT rates.

**Quotes you've already sent** keep their previous settings in their snapshots. Changing the status doesn't rewrite history.

## What's next

- [Net or gross prices on the quote](/helpcenter/quotes/net-or-gross-prices)
- [Change company country and currency](/helpcenter/settings/country-and-currency)