Changelog

Every tool update, rate verification, fix and review — newest first. Tax figures are re-verified each January and July when EU member states typically change rates.

11 October 2026

• Sitemap corrected: five French pages that were marked noindex were still listed in the sitemap, asking Google to index pages the site told it not to. Removed, taking the sitemap from 86 URLs to 81. No French content was lost - all 19 French pages remain on the site.
• Invalid language tags removed: all 86 pages carried hreflang="fr", with 81 of them pointing at the French homepage rather than the matching French page. Removed site-wide, because hreflang pointing at a noindex page is discarded by Google and only creates a false duplicate-content signal. The correctly-paired French pages are still reachable and will be re-added as a proper pair when the French section is expanded.
• Ads removed from the blog index: the blog listing page is navigation, not content, so it no longer carries advertising.
• Homepage rebuilt as a guide: grew from 291 words to roughly 1,000. Adds a "which tool do I need" routing guide organised by situation rather than tool name, a sourcing section naming where each figure comes from, and an honest limits section covering what the calculators will not tell you - including that a well-formed VAT number is not a verified one, and that a VIES result does not establish that reverse charge applies.
• VAT rates page expanded and corrected: grew from 355 to 1,068 words with a 32-row table and no explanation of its own columns. Adds how to read the table, the three-step test for which rate actually applies, and three new FAQs. The most common misunderstanding is now addressed directly: a reduced rate is not a rate you may choose. Article 98(1) limits reduced rates to the supplies listed in Annex III, and allows a maximum of two per member state, floored at 5%.
• California and New York calculators expanded: the two thin state pages grew from 423 and 453 words to 1,471 and 1,618 respectively, bringing them into line with Texas. New sections explain the order deductions hit a paycheck, that SDI is an insurance premium rather than a tax and cannot be reclaimed at filing, that withholding is a prepayment and not a bill, and what inputs change the result. New York gains a section on resident, non-resident and commuter status, which is decided by where you live rather than where you work.
• Four citation errors corrected: a fabricated "Article 369k" on the OSS page (the real provision is Article 369); a description of "Article 233 timing deadlines", where Article 233 concerns the authenticity, integrity and legibility of invoices rather than timing; the currency-conversion rule cited to Article 231 rather than Article 230; and a reference to "Articles 227-231", two of which were deleted by Directive 2010/45/EU. The last two fixes the invoice article contradicted itself.
• Legal references re-verified against consolidated text: 20 articles checked verbatim against the consolidated version of Directive 2006/112/EC, not the original 2006 publication, which differs materially. Articles 90, 96, 97, 98(1), 138, 141, 192a, 193, 196, 198, 199(1)(a)-(g), 199a(1)(a)-(j), 222, 224, 226, 226b, 230, 233, 238 and 352 all confirmed as written, including the carve-outs in 199a(1)(j) and the Article 135(1)(j)-(k) and 137 reference in 199(1)(c).
• Time limit now disclosed on the domestic reverse charge table: Article 199a(1) is only available until 31 December 2026. The categories in that table - mobile phones, integrated circuits, laptops and tablets, gas and electricity certificates, telecommunication services, cereals and raw metals - depend on it. The position from 1 January 2027 needs checking rather than assuming the rule carries over. The rows resting on Article 199(1) and Article 198 carry no such end date.
• Internal links now point at canonical URLs: all 3,565 internal links used .html paths while the sitemap and canonical tags used extensionless ones, so every internal link pointed at a duplicate that redirected attention elsewhere. Rewritten site-wide.
• Development files no longer published: the version-control directory and deployment config were reachable at a live URL. They are now excluded from the deployed assets.

27 September 2026

• Authorship: the site is now published under the name of CA Neha Tabassum, Chartered Accountant, named on the About page and used as the byline on all 20 guides and articles. Structured data keeps EuTaxFlow as the publisher, which is the accurate description.
• Contact address: support and business-inquiry email changed to eutaxflow@gmail.com across all pages, the rate-alert signup and the French pages. Also corrected a domain typo ("euraxflow.com") in the French privacy notice.
• UK late payment guide rewritten: Charging Interest on Overdue Invoices in the UK expanded from roughly 420 to 2,765 words. Adds what the 1998 Act does and does not cover, the £40/£70/£100 fixed recovery tiers, the £100,000 compensation cap and the 8-week and 12-month enforcement windows, a worked £8,000 example, a UK-versus-EU comparison table, five new FAQs, and direct citations to legislation.gov.uk, GOV.UK and Bank of England rate history.
• State paycheck pages expanded: the California, New York and Texas pages are now full guides with worked $85,000 examples, state-specific tax breakdowns and three FAQs each. Deep links (?state=) now pre-select the correct state in the main calculator instead of defaulting to the wrong one.
• Favicon corrected: the icon file was stored outside the web root and had been returning 404 on every page, including the browser's default request. It is now published at /favicon.ico and relative paths in subdirectories point to it. This supersedes the 21 September entry that reported it as shipped.
• Readability: added a linked table of contents and a key-takeaways summary to the How to Get Paid Faster guide, plus a UK-to-EU late payment cross-link from the UK guide.
• Three new guides published: EU Invoice Requirements 2026 (the Article 226 field list, the Articles 227–231 special cases and the Article 233 timing rules), GDPR Articles 13 & 14 (every required disclosure, checked line by line against the consolidated Regulation, including that Article 14 omits one item Article 13 requires), and Sequential vs Stacked Discounts (every figure computed, including a correction to the standard advice that a discount must never be applied to the gross total).
• Demand letter generator added to the UK late payment guide: enter the net amount, the Bank Rate that applied on the due date and the days overdue, and the letter calculates the statutory interest, selects the correct £40/£70/£100 fixed recovery band and prints or saves as a PDF. Runs entirely in the browser — no account, no upload, nothing transmitted. Verified by an automated test covering the arithmetic, all four fee-tier boundaries and the empty-input guard.
• /blog restructured into a plain listing page. The seven in-page article teasers were removed, so every link on that page is now a real address rather than an anchor. Two of them duplicated standalone guides; a third duplicated the VAT rate table — and that duplicate carried an incorrect Slovakia reduced rate of 10%, which no other page on the site listed. The full 27-country table remains on vat-rates-2026, which is more detailed; the three non-EU rows that appear nowhere else (UK, Norway, Switzerland) are kept.
• Sitemap extended to 78 URLs, and the eur-lex source link for the VAT Directive corrected to the current consolidated version (02006L0112-20240101, confirmed against the European Commission).
• Three under-built pages rebuilt. Hungary VAT went from 347 to 1,911 words and now carries all three of its rates (27% standard plus 18% and 5% reduced — the 18% tier was previously missing), the HUF 12 million registration threshold, NAV registration, the Online Számla e-invoicing mandate and six FAQs. What Is VAT? went from 291 to 2,063 words and Reverse Charge Explained from 349 to 2,401. All three gained a named byline, a key-takeaways box, a linked table of contents, an ad slot and matching FAQ structured data.
• Corrections found while rewriting them. The Hungary page credited "IRS 2026 tax tables" as a source — a copy-paste artefact from a US page. The reverse charge page told readers that B2C digital services are "always destination-taxed", which contradicts the EU-wide €10,000 threshold; it also cited Article 196 for cross-border supplies, which is the domestic mechanism. What Is VAT? carried the same IRS source error, a hardcoded footer year and a filler paragraph outside the section close. Reverse charge no longer asserts an article number it cannot substantiate, and explains the mechanism instead.
• Denmark's phantom reduced rate removed. The rate table in the calculator listed a 0% reduced rate for Denmark, which does not exist — both the Denmark guide and the 2026 rates table already showed no reduced rate, and the published position is that Denmark is the only EU member state with a single rate. The field is removed and the table now prints a dash where a country has no reduced rate, instead of "undefined%".
• €10,000 threshold terminology corrected. The OSS checker described the EU-wide cross-border B2C threshold as a "micro-business threshold" and stated the domestic simplification as a rule rather than a permission. It is now called the EU-wide distance-sales threshold, flagged as separate from the national domestic micro-business relief some member states grant, and worded to match the Directive's own "may" — below €10,000 a supplier may continue to charge the rate of the member state where it is established. The visible FAQ and the structured data were realigned so they cannot drift apart again.
• Structured data added to seven pages that had none: Hungary (the only one of 27 country pages missing it), What Is VAT, Reverse Charge Explained, and the four legal pages — Contact, Privacy, Terms and Disclaimer. Contact carries a ContactPage node with the support address. All 105 JSON-LD blocks across the site validate.
• Authorship surfaced on the homepage, which until now named no author at all despite every article carrying a byline.
• Missing social image generated. gen-country-og.py listed only 26 of the 27 member states, so Hungary had never had an Open Graph image despite the other 26 having one. Hungary added to the generator and the image produced.
• Known open item, flagged rather than guessed: the article-number citations in the Reverse Charge B2B guide appear to be mislabelled — the eight-row domestic table is cited as Article 199(1)(a)–(h), but Article 199(1) is a single sentence with no sub-paragraphs, and Article 196 is the domestic list. These labels are left unchanged pending confirmation against the legal text, rather than replaced with a different number from memory.

26 September 2026

• Rate corrections: Germany Kleinunternehmer €25,000/€100,000 (2025 rules); Finland standard 25.5%; Czechia single 12% reduced rate with CZK 2,000,000 threshold; Croatia €60,000 euro threshold; Slovakia 23%/19%/5%.
• Master table and calculator presets aligned to the corrected rates.
• Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria: EE standard 24% (Jul 2025); RO 21%/11% (2025 reform); BG euro adoption with €51,130 threshold.
• Late-payment half-year logic: statutory reference rates per half-year (ECB rates in force 1 Jan / 1 Jul, H1 2024–H2 2026) replace the single current-rate default.
• Claims cleanup: "Trusted by 30 countries", "never broken", "100% private" and "live/mid-market" wording corrected; guides authorship unified as EuTaxFlow Editorial.
• Wording hardening: invoice and VAT-validator claims softened, France territorial scope note, B2C-digital qualifiers, currency-spread hedge, disclaimer completeness clause.

25 September 2026

• ECB rate verified: main refinancing rate confirmed at 2.65% (in force since 16 September 2026, ECB official rates page); late-payment calculator default updated from 2.15%.
• VIES live check: VAT validator gained one-click live registration lookup against the official EU VIES database, with formatted proof output (name, address, timestamp).
• Print upgrade: invoice and UBL sheets now print as full-page A4 documents; SEO content excluded from print output.
• Trust batch: "Last verified" dates + source lines added to 52 pages; 3 new FAQs each on VAT calculator, IBAN validator, late-payment calculator and VAT validator; VAT validator renamed to "Format Checker".
• FOUC fix: stylesheets now load normally on all pages (no more flash of unstyled content).
• Greek VAT fix: EL-prefixed numbers now validate correctly.

24 September 2026

• New guides: Paycheck Calculator 2026: Federal, State & Local Taxes and EU VAT Registration for Small Businesses (Bulgaria, Hungary & 27 countries).
• Structured data: truncated JSON-LD repaired and validated on 24 country VAT pages.

23 September 2026

• New guide: How to Get Paid Faster: Payment Terms, Late Fees & VAT Rules.
• Structured data: truncated JSON-LD repaired on vat-rates-2026, vat-france and vat-germany.

21 September 2026

• New guide: IBAN Checker, Late Payment Interest & ECB Currency Guide.
• Sitemap rebuilt: all URLs converted to clean extensionless paths (59 URLs).
• Search snippets: titles and meta descriptions rewritten on 13 pages for higher click-through.
• Brand in search: real favicon.ico shipped; Organization logo structured data added.

Review policy

Figures are checked against official publications (EU Commission, ECB, IRS, national tax authorities) before publishing and re-verified each January and July. Found an error? Report it — corrections are logged here with their date.

Info only — not tax advice. Always confirm with your national tax authority.