Use cases
Percent & VAT (where it earns its place)
On Percent & VAT:
The invoice says plus VAT, the sale says forty percent off, and your brain says please, not before coffee. Percent & VAT handles the small arithmetic of money — percentages up and down, tax added on or peeled back out of a gross price. … On this page: three concrete ways anyone who does this calculation more than once reaches for the Percent & VAT, and the signals that tell you it fits.
When the Percent & VAT earns its place
You come to the Percent & VAT the way you come to any well-made calculator: with numbers, a question, and no patience for a landing page. It gives you a result and forgets it. That is its whole personality.
Most tools in this category, an ad-funded web calculator and a paid spreadsheet template, solve a version of the same problem, then bill you for the privilege of remembering it. The Percent & VAT takes the opposite bargain: one file, once, kept.
Three scenarios drawn from money, accounting, and freelance
The everyday one: you open the Percent & VAT on a Tuesday morning, punch in the numbers, and close it. Two minutes. The record is more honest than the app that pinged you to remind you.
The specific one: the calculation it's built to run, day to day — the workflow it names is the calculation that most needs a home outside a subscription. Some people use only the Percent & VAT. Some fold it into a Swiss Knife next to five others. Both are correct.
The out-of-band one: months later, you want to look back. The Percent & VAT still opens because it is a file. There is no login lapsed, no export deadline missed. The answer is where you left it.
Signals it fits anyone who does this calculation more than once
You want a calculation that behaves like a document, not a service. You are comfortable typing your own numbers in. You would rather own the file than rent the calculator. Weight in the knife: 1. Manual: no manual — the tool is its own instructions.
Signals it fits
- You do this calculation more than onceThe Percent & VAT pays back every time you don't have to reinvent the shape.
- You want it offline, on your own machineNo account, no cloud, no vendor between you and the arithmetic.
- You're comfortable with a hand-kept fileThe Percent & VAT is a document. It behaves like one.
Questions people ask
How do I work out the price before VAT from a total?
Give it the gross amount and the rate, and it peels the tax back out to show you the net. It works in the other direction too, for when you are the one writing the invoice.
Is this a full replacement for an ad-funded web calculator?
For the working core of what most people use it for — keeping the inputs, the arithmetic, and the result — yes. For free, and paid for with your attention and your inputs, no. The Percent & VAT is deliberately smaller and more honest about its scope.
Who is the Percent & VAT not for?
Anyone who does this calculation more than once's opposite: a team that needs shared cloud state, or someone who wants automation over ownership. Use a SaaS for that; use this for the file.
A calculation that opens where you left it, on the machine you left it on.