The introductory part will take us through the basics of value added tax, what the taxes are, what they apply to, how many changes the government reform has brought. The final paper will deal with the issue of rising prices in the Republic of Croatia, what is the current value added tax for individual products. Several areas to which the value-added tax applies were individually processed, as well as the impact of the Covid crisis on the rise in prices, as well as the war between Ukraine and Russia on the instability of the market and the uncertainty for the future that will be brought to us by the lack of energy, oil, fuel and due to this had a great impact on the transport of goods, which doubled regardless of how much the state influenced and intervened. A survey will be conducted in which we will find out what impact this all had on the population or a certain smaller population that will be surveyed, as well as in which areas the change in prices was more felt and what changes the respondents would like to see. The results of the research will be presented at the end of the final paper, and a review of the respondents' answers will be written. The obtained results will be presented in graphs and briefly explained. The written conclusion will be the overall opinion of the author on the conducted research through a questionnaire on 50 respondents.