This leaflet tells you how to make sure that your European Community (EC)
the validity of the Community tax number and identification details of your partner in the
accuracy.
To check the validity of Community tax numbers on the EC website
The validity of Community tax numbers can be verified by the ECJ for the NAV
website at http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/ . To do this, you must
you must enter your own Community tax number.
You will be able to identify the query if the verified Community tax number was valid.
It is important that you keep this unique reference number as it will enable you to verify the query
the fact and the result of the query.
The EB also provides a free interface for automated queries, so that manual
query, Community tax numbers can also be checked via a web service.
The WSDL files needed to access this service can be downloaded from the EB website at
link below:
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatTestService.wsdl
For automated queries, you only need to keep electronic records of the
the unique reference number returned.
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