Check VAT validity

This is a small utility to check VAT validity. Check VAT validity is responsible for checking validity of VAT in the following countries:

IT, BE, BG, CY, CZ, DK, EE, FI, FR, DE, GR, HU, IE, AT, LV, LT, LU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SI, ES, SE, GB

The function is quite simple and accepts a countryCode and a vatNumber that should be passed to the function as arguments. The library uses SOAP, making a POST to the following URL: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl and it returns:

• true if the VAT is valid
• false otherwise

The service fullfills the following business requirements:

• Allow the system to check if the VAT number is valid or not.

The following is an example for calling the service:

let result = await checkVatValidity('IT', '000000000');

Request Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Description | |-------|------|-------------| | countryCode | String | Identifies the country code || | vatNumber | String | Identifies the VAT number to check ||

Response

| Parameter | Type | Description | |-------|------|-------------| | response | Boolean | Returns true if valid, false otherwise ||