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noble spoke
hello! I would guess that it validates that the EU VAT number exists in the European Commission’s VAT Information Exchange System (VIES). Are you running into any specific issues?
hard swan
Yes, I'm talking to support like forever, but they say Stripe does not check against VIES, so I'm confused in how it works. We did a full implementation of invoices, taxation and payments. Now it looks like when a clients enters a tax number, it does the right tax calculations, but every now and then a client (in the EU) enters a VAT number and Stripe accepts it, but when I check the VAT number on the VIES website, it says it's invalid.
noble spoke
We mainly help with developers who want to integrate directly with the Stripe API here on this channel so we don't really have the necessary expertise to help with why the VAT number is still being accepted despite it not being on VIES. I'm afraid you're going to need to follow up on that support ticket for more details