vat-check

Check VAT validity

This is a small utility to check VAT validity. Check VAT validity is responsible for checking validity of VAT in the following countries:

IT, BE, BG, CY, CZ, DK, EE, FI, FR, DE, GR, HU, IE, AT, LV, LT, LU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SI, ES, SE, GB

The function is quite simple and accepts a countryCode and a vatNumber that should be passed to the function as arguments. The library uses SOAP, making a POST to the following URL: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl and it returns:

• true if the VAT is valid
• false otherwise

The service fullfills the following business requirements:

• Allow the system to check if the VAT number is valid or not.

The following is an example for calling the service:

let result = await checkVatValidity('IT', '000000000');

Request Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
countryCode	String	Identifies the country code
vatNumber	String	Identifies the VAT number to check

Response

Parameter	Type	Description
response	Boolean	Returns true if valid, false otherwise