Registration and use of your EU Intracommunity VAT number
Our system allows you to register your company’s VAT number with automatic verification on the European Commission VIES website, this allows you to make tax-free payments for your orders.
Note : some VAT numbers delivered is some countries are only used in your country for administrative purpose, this mean not all VAT number are valid in EUROPE to make purchase without VAT.
WHERE : Your VAT number must be inserted when you register a postal address.
HOW : Your VAT number must be inserted in the European format (see table below). Otherwise it cannot be approved. It must not contain dashes, full stops or any other characters, but only the letters of the country followed by the numbers
According to the standards below, a correct number for France is FR12345678901, for Italy IT12345678901, Belgium BE1234567890, Germany DE123456789 etc.
If you do not enter your VAT number correctly, the system will retain the VAT in your invoice, and it will then be impossible to refund it.
| Country | Country Code | Format | Characters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | AT | U12345678 | 9 characters | 9 characters the first character is always a ‘U’ |
| Belgium | BE | 1234567890 | 10 characters | Prefix with zero ‘0’ if the customer provides a 9 digit VAT number |
| Bulgaria | BG | 123456789, 1234567890 | 9 or 10 characters | |
| Croatia | HR | 12345678901 | 11 characters | |
| Cyprus | CY | 12345678X | 9 characters The last character must always be a letter | |
| Czech Republic | CZ | 12345678 123456789 1234567890 | 8, 9 or 10 characters If more than 10 characters are provided delete the first 3 | |
| Denmark | DK | 12345678 | 8 characters | |
| Estonia | EE | 123456789 | 9 characters | |
| Finland | FI | 12345678 | 8 characters | |
| France | FR | 12345678901 X1234567890 1X123456789 XX123456789 | 11 characters May include alphabetical characters (any except O or I) as first or second or first and second characters. | |
| Germany | DE | 123456789 | 9 characters | |
| Greece | EL | 123456789 | 9 characters | |
| Hungary | HU | 12345678 | 8 characters | |
| Ireland | IE | 1234567WA (companies) 1234567FA (individuals) | 8 or 9 characters Includes one or two alphabetical characters (last, or second and last, or last 2) | |
| Italy | IT | 12345678901 | 11 characters | |
| Latvia | LV | 12345678901 | 11 characters | |
| Lithuania | LT | 123456789 123456789012 | 9 or 12 characters | |
| Luxembourg | LU | 12345678 | 8 characters | |
| Malta | MT | 12345678 | 8 characters | |
| Netherlands | NL | 123456789B01 or 123456789BO2 | 12 characters. The 10th character is always B | Companies forming a VAT Group have the suffix BO2 |
| Norway | 123456789MVA | 9 digits and the letters ‘MVA’ to indicate VAT registration | Last (ninth) digit is a MOD11 checksum digit.[20] | |
| Poland | PL | 1234567890 | 10 characters | |
| Portugal | PT | 123456789 | 9 characters | |
| Romania | RO | 1234567890 | 10 characters | |
| Slovakia | SK | 1234567890 | 10 characters | |
| Slovenia | SI | 12345678 | 8 characters | |
| Spain | ES | X12345678 12345678X X1234567X | 9 characters Includes 1 or 2 alphabetical characters (first or last or first and last) | |
| Sweden | SE | 123456789012 | 12 characters | |
| Switzerland | CHE | 123.456.789 | 9 numbers plus MWST/TVA/IVA | German part: MWST French part: TVA Italian part: IVA |
| United Kingdom | GB | 123456789 | 9 characters |