VAT information

Benefits of sharing VAT number

VAT number is the number of company registration to Value Added Tax. This is provided by local Trade Court or Tax office depense on legislation in every single country within EU. VAT affects only business inside EU, third countries companies does not have to pay any VAT.

VAT is international abreviation, locally the abreviations are f.e. DPH, TVA, GST, IVA.

Country Structure Format:

• Austria ATU99999999 1 block of 9 characters
• Belgium BE999999999 or BE0999999999 1 block of 9 digits or 1 block of 10 digits
• Denmark DK99 99 99 99 4 blocks of 2 digits
• France FRXX 999999999 1 block of 2 characters, 1 block of 9 digits
• Germany DE999999999 1 block of 9 digits
• Great Britain /United Kingdom GB999 9999 99 or GB999 9999 99 999 or GBGD999 or GBHA999 1 block of 3 digits, 1 block of 4 digits and 1 block of 2 digits; or the above followed by a block of 3 digits; or 1 block of 5 characters
• Greece EL999999999 1 block of 9 digits
• Italy IT99999999999 1 block of 11 digits
• Netherlands NL999999999B99 1 block of 12 characters
• Poland PL9999999999 1 block of 10 digits
• Portugal PT999999999 1 block of 9 digits
• Spain ESX9999999X 1 block of 9 characters
• Slovak Rep. SK9999999999 1 block of 10 digits
• Etc. (other countries similar principles)

In case of not having VAT number from you, we have to , according to EU legal requirements, charge you with VAT of 20%. Than you would have to deal about this with your local Tax office to cash the amount of VAT back. In case that you are VAT non payer, we charge you with this tax without any cashback from your tax office to you. 

VAT number approval at our side last just few seconds, if the company is already registered for some time. By freshly obtained VAT numbers, there are few days needed due to a central european VAT listing system update delay. You also may check your registration and registration of your partners at http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/