VAT number check

Enter a country and VAT number. We forward your input to VIES (for EU member states) or HMRC's UK VAT checker (for GB-prefix numbers). We do not log your input.

For the full validator page see /validate/. To work out which country's VAT applies on a cross-border B2B sale, use the reverse-charge lookup. According to VIES (the EU's live VAT Information Exchange System), lookups are forwarded at request time across all 27 EU member states; see our methodology for how this validator works.

Compiled from official public sources by the publisher.

PlainVAT renders country-rate figures from the European Commission's Taxation and Customs Union VAT-rate registry; explanatory guidance links to its relevant authority sources. This page draws directly on the European Commission VAT-rate registry, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.