Package vat

Package for validating VAT numbers & retrieving VAT rates ( from ibericode/vat-rates) in Go.

Based on https://github.com/dannyvankooten/vat

Installation

Use go get.

go get github.com/teamwork/vat

Then import the package into your own code.

import "github.com/teamwork/vat"

Usage

Validating VAT numbers

VAT numbers can be validated by format, existence or both.

EU VAT numbers are looked up using the VIES VAT validation API.

UK VAT numbers are looked up using UK GOV VAT validation API .

package main

import "github.com/teamwork/vat"

func main() {
	// These validation functions return an error if the VAT number is invalid. If no error, then it is valid.

	// Validate number by format + existence
	err := vat.Validate("NL123456789B01")

	// Validate number format
	err := vat.ValidateFormat("NL123456789B01")

	// Validate number existence
	err := vat.ValidateExists("NL123456789B01")
}

Retrieving VAT rates

This package relies on a community maintained repository of vat rates. We invite you to toggle notifications for that repository and contribute changes to VAT rates in your country once they are announced.

To get VAT rate periods for a country, first get a CountryRates struct using the country's ISO-3166-1-alpha2 code.

You can get the rate that is currently in effect using the GetRate function.

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/teamwork/vat"
)

func main() {
	c, err := vat.GetCountryRates("IE")
	r, err := c.GetRate("standard")

	fmt.Printf("Standard VAT rate for IE is %.2f", r)
	// Output: Standard VAT rate for IE is 23.00
}

License

MIT licensed. See the LICENSE file for details.