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Invoice with VAT details (Ireland)
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For a sole trader, partnership or company in Ireland billing a customer. The invoice has a number in your series, the date, both parties, the goods or services, the total and the payment details. A VAT-registered business adds its VAT number, the date of supply, the rate and the VAT, as regulation 20 of the Value-Added Tax Regulations 2010 requires, and the customer's VAT number where needed; a business that is not registered leaves those lines empty. A PDF sent by email is fine.
- Made for use in Ireland
- Last updated November 3, 2026
- Document in English
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When to use this document
- You finished a job as a sole trader in Ireland and need to bill the customer.
- Your business is registered for VAT and needs an invoice showing the VAT properly.
- A client asked you for a proper invoice before they will pay you.
- You want a simple invoice template for your small business in Ireland.
What you fill in
The details the document asks for.
- Your name or business name
- Your business address
- Town and county (e.g. Ennis, Co. Clare; or Dublin 8)
- Sender's Eircode
- Your company number (CRO), if a company
- Registered office, if a company
- Your VAT number (blank if not registered)
- Customer
- Customer's address
- Customer's VAT number (if the customer accounts for the VAT)
- Invoice number
- Date
- Date of delivery or supply (if different from the invoice date)
- Each item: description, quantity, price before VAT, VAT rate
- Amount before VAT
- VAT rate (%)
- VAT amount
- Total amount
- Notes (e.g. Reverse charge), blank if none
- Due date
- Name on the bank account
- IBAN
Common questions
- What must a VAT invoice show in Ireland?
- The date of issue, a number from a unique series, your name, address and VAT number, the customer's name and address, the quantity and kind of goods or the extent of the services, the date of supply, the price before VAT, the VAT rate and the VAT in euro, and the customer's VAT number where the customer accounts for the VAT. Regulation 20 of the Value-Added Tax Regulations 2010 lists them; Revenue's free guidance on VAT invoices explains each one.
- Do I have to register for VAT before I can invoice in Ireland?
- No. You must register once your turnover goes above Revenue's registration thresholds, which differ for services and for goods, and you may register earlier by choice; Revenue publishes the current thresholds, and you register online through ROS or myAccount. Until you are registered, charge no VAT, show no VAT number and leave the VAT lines of this invoice empty.
- What does an invoice to a business in another EU country need?
- Usually the customer, not you, accounts for the VAT. Check the customer's VAT number on the EU's free VIES service, show it on the invoice, charge no Irish VAT, and write 'Reverse charge' in the notes line. Supplies of goods and of services follow different rules and reports; Revenue's guidance on cross-border trade sets out each case.
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