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VAT EPR EXPERTFrance

EU VAT number checker

Validate any EU VAT number in real time against the European Commission's VIES database, with the registered name and address where the member state discloses them.

Checks the member state's own database in real time via VIES. Greece uses the EL prefix; Northern Ireland uses XI.

Source: European Commission VIES, queried in real time against the member state's database. Keep the consultation number as evidence of your check; it does not by itself prove your customer's status for every tax purpose.

Check many at once

Download the template, fill in one entry per row, and upload it to check up to 500 at a time. Your file is read in your browser; only the individual values are sent, one by one, to the official database.

Download the template:

Nothing is uploaded or stored: the file stays in your browser and only the numbers are sent to the official databases to be checked.

Find out exactly what you owe in France.

Tell us what you sell and where. We confirm your French VAT and EPR obligations and send a quote, usually within one business day.

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