hmrc-tax-vat

hmrc-tax-vat is a skill for Claude Code from paulieb89/bouch-plugins. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,082 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A UK tax research tool based on HMRC guidance, covering tax rules, VAT rates, and Making Tax Digital, the UK system for submitting records and returns digitally.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check VAT on goods or services, determine whether a business must register for Making Tax Digital, and research UK tax questions.
Why use it?
It turns official tax guidance into plain-English answers with relevant thresholds, rates, and next steps. It requires the UK Legal MCP server.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the legal-os plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to check VAT on goods or services, determine whether a business must register for Making Tax Digital, and research UK tax questions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paulieb89/bouch-plugins/hmrc-tax-vat
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add paulieb89/bouch-plugins --skill hmrc-tax-vat
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulieb89/bouch-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install legal-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,082 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00076 $0.01082
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00541
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00108

Measured 10d ago against content hash ab7a67cf6d9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hmrc-tax-vat scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/legal-os/skills/hmrc-tax-vat/SKILL.md · 110 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 110 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A ab7a67cf6d9b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hmrc-tax-vat is a skill published in the GitHub repository paulieb89/bouch-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,082 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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