https://github.com/goenning/vat

Go package for EU VAT
https://github.com/goenning/vat

golang vat vat-number

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Go package for EU VAT

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/goenning/vat
• Owner: goenning
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-01-08T18:32:58.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-01-08T19:41:48.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-02T19:41:37.539Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: golang, vat, vat-number
• Language: Go
• Size: 5.86 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Golang VAT number validation

Uses the official [VIES VAT number validation SOAP web service](http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/vatRequest.html?locale=en)

to validate european VAT numbers.

Unfortunately their service is super unreliable.

## Install

```

go get -u github.com/goenning/vat

```

## Usage with Go

```go

import "github.com/goenning/vat"

response, err := vat.Query("IE6388047V")

if err != nil {

  // do sth with err

}

if response.IsValid {

    fmt.Println(response.Name)

}

```

## Retry

Because VIES service is very unreliable, this package will retry every failed request for a maximum of 4 times using an exponential backoff strategy.

## Greece and United Kingdom

This package always assume that country code is on ISO 3166 list.

Greece's ISO 3166 country code is `GR`, but EU uses `EL`. This package does the conversion so that you don't need to care about EU's country code. Same applies to `UK`, both ISO and EU uses `GB`, but this package will always convert `UK` to `GB` for safety reasons.

This conversion only happens for the CountryCode field and not VAT Number. So a EL094160738 is a **valid** VAT number for the `GR` country.

## Fork

This package is a merge of [mattes/vat](https://github.com/mattes/vat) and [dannyvankooten/vat](https://github.com/dannyvankooten/vat), with some refactoring and other features. Thanks!