Countries With a Pre-Defined Tax Registration Number Validation Format

The SuiteTax Engine includes a set of pre–defined formats for many countries; tax registration numbers and uses these to validate your tax registration number. For more information, see Validating Tax Registrations.

The following table lists the countries and their pre-defined validation formats provided by the SuiteTax Engine:

Country

Pre-Defined Tax Registration Format

Australia

^((ABN)\s)?\d{2}\s\d{3}\s\d{3}\s\d{3}(\s\d{3})?$|^(ABN)?\d{11}(\d{3})?$

Austria

^ATU\d{8}$|^AT U\d{8}$|^EU

Belgium

^BE\d{10}$|^BE\s0\d{9}$|^EU

Bulgaria

^\d{9,10}$|^BG\d{9,10}$|^EU

Canada

^\d{9}(RT(\d{4})?)?$

Chile

^\d{2}[.]?\d{3}[.]?\d{3}\-[0-9|K]

Colombia

^\d{3}\.\d{3}\.\d{3}\-\d{1}$|^\d{6,11}

Cyprus

^CY\d{8}[A-Z]$|^EU

Czechia

^CZ\d{8}$|^CZ\d{9}$|^CZ\d{10}$|^EU

Denmark

^(DK)?\d{8}$|^EU

Finland

^FI\d{8}$|^EU

France

^FR[A-Z0-9]{2}\d{9}$|^EU

Germany

^DE\d{9}$|^\d{11}$|^EU

Hungary

^HU\d{8}$|^\d{8}-\d-\d{2}$|^EU

Indonesia

^\d{2}\.\d{3}\.\d{3}\.\d{1}[.\-]\d{3}\.\d{3}$|^\d{15}$

Ireland

^IE\d{7}[A-Z]{1,2}$|^IE\d[A-Z]\d{5}[A-Z]$|^IE\d\W\d{5}[A-Z]$|^EU

Italy

^(IT)?\d{11}$|^EU

Japan

^\d{2}\s?\d{2}\s?\d{2}\s?\d{2}$|^\d{5}$

Kenya

^\d{7}\w{1}$|^w\{11}$

Luxembourg

^LU\d{8}$|^EU

Malaysia

^\w-\d{10}|^\w\d{6}|^\w{3}-\w{2}-\d{8}(/\d{4})?|^(W\d{2}-)?\d{8}/\d{2,4}$|^\d{12}$

Mexico

^[A-Z]{3,4}\d{6}\w{3}$

Netherlands

^NL\d{9}B\d{2}$|^EU

New Zealand

^\d{2,3}-?\d{3}-?\d{3}$

Norway

^(NO)?\s?\d{3}\s?\d{3}\s?\d{3}\s?MVA$

Peru

^\d{3}\s\d{3}\s\d{3}\s\d{2}|^\d{11}

Philippines

^(\d{12}|^\d{3}\s\d{3}\s\d{3}\s\d{3}|^\d{3}\-\d{3}\-\d{3}\-\d{3})(\s|(-))?((VAT)|(Non VAT))?$

Poland

^(PL)?\s?\d{10}$|^(PL)?\s?\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{3}$|^(PL)?\s?\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{2}$|^EU

Portugal

^PT\d{9}$|^EU

Romania

^EU|^RO\d{2,10}$

Serbia

^\d{9}$

Singapore

^\w{2}-?\d{7}-?\w$|^\d{8,9}\w$|^[TS]\d{2}[A-Z]\w\d{4}\w$

Slovakia

^SK\d{10}$|^SK\d{9}$|^EU

Slovenia

^SI\d{8}$|^EU

South Africa

^\d{10}$|^\d{3}\s\d{4}\s\d{3}$

South Korea

^\d{3}\-\d{2}\-\d{5}$|^\d{10}$

Spain

^[A|B|N|W]\d{8}$

Sweden

^SE\d{12}$|^EU

Switzerland

^(CH)?\d{3}(\s)?\d{3}$|^CHE-?\d{3}\.?\d{3}\.?\d{3}(\s)?(((HR/?)?MWST)|((RC/?)?(TVA|IVA)))?$

Taiwan

^\d{8}$|^\d{2}\s\d{2}\s\d{2}\s\d{2}$

Thailand

^\d{2}\s\d{2}\s\d{2}\s\d{2}\s\d{2}$|^\d{10}$|^\d{13}?$

Türkiye

^\d{10}$|^\d{3}\s\d{3}\s\d{4}$|^\d{11}$

Ukraine

^\d{3}\s?\d{3}\s?\d{3}\s?(\d{3})?$

United Kingdom

^GB\d{9}$|^GB\d{12}$|^GB[A-Z]{2}\d{3}$|^EU

Uruguay

^\d{12}$

Viet Nam

^\d{10}-?(\d{3})?$

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