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Europe VAT Validator

Excel VBA tool to validate VAT Registration Numbers for EU and UK business customers, using public WebAPIs.

Usage instructions

  1. Open EuropeVatValidator.xlsm file.
  2. Go to sheet Validator and enter/paste VAT numbers to be validated in column VAT Registration Number. Valid format is {ISO Country Code}{vat number}
  3. Select icon Run Validator icon from Excel Quick Access Toolbar
  4. If you are behind proxy, select option Connect via proxy server and enter proxy user and password. Other proxy settings going to be loaded automatically in background.
  5. Click Start to run validation process or Cancel to close user form
  6. Once validation is completed message box will pop-up.

Notes

Eropean Commission's VIES (VAT Information Electronic System) offers SOAP service which allows to validate VAT Registration Number for EU countries (see table below). For more details about service see VIES FAQ.
AT-Austria EE-Estonia IE-Ireland PL-Poland
BE-Belgium EL-Greece IT-Italy PT-Portugal
BG-Bulgaria ES-Spain LT-Lithuania RO-Romania
CY-Cyprus FI-Finland LU-Luxembourg SE-Sweden
CZ-Czech Republic FR-France LV-Latvia SI-Slovenia
DE-Germany HR-Croatia MT-Malta SK-Slovakia
DK-Denmark HU-Hungary NL-The Netherlands XI-Northern Ireland

United Kingdom

As brexit became a fact, HMRC (HM Revenue & Customs) provides separate web service to check UK companies vat numbers. See Check a UK VAT number API documentation for more details.

Dependecies

For HTTP communication I have used VBA library availble at VBA-Web repository.

Where early binding have been used, following references must be set up within VBE:

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