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EC Tax Registration numbers

The following tables indicate the valid tax registration number formats for the various European Community countries. The following fields are validated against the formats listed in these tables:

Vat registration number (Supplier Maintenance) if the Nationality code assigned to the supplier is defined as an EC Member State (Nationalities)
Tax exemption number (AR Customer Maintenance) if the Nationality code assigned to the customer is defined as an EC Member State (Nationalities)

European Union Member States

The following table indicates the format for EC VAT registration numbers in each of the member states.

Member State	Nationality Code	Format of VAT Number
Austria	AT	U12345678 9 characters. 1st character will always be `U`
Belgium	BE	0123456789 A 10 digit number. The first digit must always be zero. Prior to 31/12/2007, the EC VAT number for Belgium was a nine digit number (123456789).
Bulgaria	BG	123456789 or 1234567890 A 9 or 10 digit number.
Croatia	HR	12345678901 An 11 digit number.
Denmark	DK	12345678 An 8 digit number.
Finland	FI	12345678 An 8 digit number.
France	FR	12345678901 or 1X123456789 or X1123456789 or XX123456789 May include an alpha character as the 1st or 2nd or 1st and 2nd character. The alphabetic characters `I` and `O` are invalid.
Germany	DE	123456789 A 9 digit number
Greece	EL	012345678 From 1/1/1999 numbers were amended to 9 digits. Existing 8 digit numbers may be changed by adding a leading 0.
Ireland	IE	Old format: 1234567X or 1X34567X Include one alpha character as the last character or two alpha characters as the 2nd character and the last character. New format: 1234567XX 9 characters. The last two characters are alphabetic.
Italy	IT	12345678901 An 11 digit number
Luxembourg	LU	12345678 An 8 digit number
Netherlands	NL	123456789B01 The last 3 characters must be in the range B01 to B99
Northern Ireland	XI	123456789 A 9 digit number
Portugal	PT	123456789 A 9 digit number
Spain	ES	X12345678 or 12345678X or X1234567X Include one alpha character either as the 1st or the last character or two alpha characters as the 1st character and the last character (i.e. the first and last character may be alpha or numeric, but they may not both be numeric).
Sweden	SE	123456789001 Last 2 digits must be `01`
United Kingdom	GB	123456789 A 9 digit number. One block or 3 digits, one block of 4 digits and one block of 2 digits. or One block or 3 digits, one block of 4 digits, one block of 2 digits and one block of 3 digits or One block or 3 digits, one block of 4 digits, one block of 2 digits and one block of 5 characters. 999 9999 99 999 (identifies branch transfers). GD999 (identifies Government Departments) HA999 (identifies Health Authorities)

European Union Accession States

The following table indicates the format for EC VAT registration numbers in each of the accession states.

Accession State	Country Code	Format of VAT Number
Bulgaria	BG	123456789 or 1234567890 A 9 or 10 digit number
Croatia	HR	12345678901 An 11 digit number
Cyprus	CY	12345678X 9 characters. The last character is alphabetic
Czech Republic	CZ	12345678 or 123456789 or 1234567890 An 8, 9 or 10 digit number
Estonia	EE	123456789 A 9 digit number
Hungary	HU	12345678 An 8 digit number
Latvia	LV	12345678901 An 11 digit number
Lithuania	LT	123456789 or 123456789012 A 9 or 12 digit number
Malta	MT	12345678 An 8 digit number
Poland	PL	1234567890 A 10 digit number
Romania	RO	1234567890 A minimum number of 2 digits and a maximum of 10 digits.
Slovenia	SI	12345678 An 8 digit number
Slovak Republic	SK	1234567890 A 10 digit number

Codes for SO Document Types

The following information is required if you were using the Report Writer module to print/maintain customer fax/email options, or when using the Customer Maintenance business object to maintain customer information.

FaxInvoices

The following table lists the entries defined against the FaxInvoices column in the ArCustomer table, or the Arsmst-Fax-Invoices field of the ARSMST file, depending on the Fax/Email options you selected for the customer.

Sales Order Document Type	Fax Code	Email Code
Order acknowledgement	W	w
Delivery note	X	x
Invoice	Y	y
Dispatch note	Z	z
Order Acknowledgement and Delivery note	A	a
Order Acknowledgement and Dispatch note	B	b
Order acknowledgement and Invoice	C	c
Delivery note and Dispatch note	D	d
Delivery note and Invoice	E	e
Dispatch note and Invoice	F	f
Order acknowledgement and Delivery note and Dispatch note	G	g
Order acknowledgement and Delivery note and Invoice	H	h
Order acknowledgement and Dispatch note and Invoice	I	i
Delivery note and Dispatch note and Invoice	J	j
Order acknowledgement and Delivery note and Dispatch note and Invoice	K	k

FaxStatements

The following entries are written to the FaxStatements column of the ArCustomer table, or the Arsmst-fax-statements field of the ARSMST file, depending on the Fax/Email options you select for statements.

Fax Code	Email Code	None
Y	E	N

FaxQuotes

The following entries are written to the FaxQuotes column of the ArCustomer table, or the Arsmst-fax-quotes field of the ARSMST file, depending on the Fax/Email options you select for quotations.

Fax Code	Email Code	None
Y	E	N