Keep your supply chain compliant from farm to shelf.
Perishable goods, cross-border trade, and varying reduced VAT rates for food products demand specialized compliance that understands your industry.
What makes food & beverages tax compliance hard
Reduced VAT rate complexity
Food products often qualify for reduced or zero VAT rates — but the rules vary wildly by country, product category, and preparation method.
Cross-border perishable trade
Time-sensitive shipments of perishable goods require immediate compliance documentation — delays at borders are not an option.
Retail & wholesale channels
Selling to both retailers and directly to consumers creates dual B2B and B2C compliance obligations across channels.
Agricultural input VAT
Flat-rate farmer schemes, agricultural exemptions, and input VAT recovery on farming supplies vary by EU member state.
How Taxera solves food & beverages compliance
Reduced rate automation
Automatic determination of correct VAT rate by product category and destination country — no manual rate lookups or classification errors.
Perishable goods compliance
Real-time eTransport and eInvoicing for time-sensitive shipments — compliance documents generated before goods leave the warehouse.
Multi-channel support
Unified compliance for B2B wholesale, B2C retail, D2C e-commerce, and marketplace channels — all from one platform.
Farm-to-shelf traceability
Complete compliance trail from agricultural input through processing to retail sale — supporting both tax and food safety audits.
Relevant compliance mandates
The tax and reporting obligations most critical for food & beverages companies.
"A global FMCG company deployed Taxera across 14 EMEA markets — automating reduced rate determination for thousands of food SKUs and eliminating manual eInvoicing across their retail distribution network."See how we can help your food & beverages operations