VAT number.. WHY?
I spammed some of you a couple of days ago for some purchase information, sorry about that. To prevent that from happening again we did an overhaul to the activation process, and this might affect you in the future.
So what we did was to require you to enter a company name if you select “We’re a company”. That’s seems pretty fair.. If you can’t remember your company name you might have more serious problems than not beeing able to activate your publication… No just kidding. Nothing is more important than that 
Now, if you’re not only purchasing as a company but you also happen to reside in Europe we need your VAT number. Otherwise we can’t reverse the VAT charge and you’ll end up paying 25% more for your publication. If you’re having trouble finding your VAT number we can give you a little hint. It looks something like this:
| Country | Format | Prefix | Example | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | One letter and eight digits | AT | AT U12345678 | |
| The first character is always ‘U’ | ||||
| Belgium | Nine digits | BE | BE 123456789 | |
| Finland | Eight digits | FI | FI 12345678 | |
| France | Eleven digits or Ten digits and one letter or Nine digits and two letters |
FR | FR 12345678901
or FR X2345678901 or FR 1X345678901 or FR XX345678901 |
|
| May include 1 or 2 letters. Either FIRST, SECOND or FIRST & SECOND. All letters except O and I are valid | ||||
| Germany | Nine digits | DE | DE 123456789 | |
| Must be the 9 digit ‘Umsatzsteur Identifikationnummer’ (Ust ID Nr.) | ||||
| Greece | Nine digits | EL | EL 012345678 | |
| Prefix any 8 digit number with zero | ||||
| Ireland | Seven digits and one letter
or Six digits and two letters |
IE | IE 1234567X
or IE 1X34567X |
|
| Includes 1 or 2 letters.Either LAST or SECOND & LAST | ||||
| Italy | Eleven digits | IT | IT 12345678901 | |
| Luxembourg | Eight digits | LU | LU 12345678 | |
| Netherlands | Eleven digits and one letter | NL | NL 123456789B01 | |
|
Tenth character is always ‘B’
The 3 digit suffix is always B01 to B99. |
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| Portugal | Nine digits | PT | PT 123456789 | |
| Spain | Eight digits and one letter
or Seven digits and two letters |
ES | ES X12345678
or ES 12345678X or ES X1234567X |
|
| Includes 1 or 2 letters. Either FIRST, LAST or FIRST & LAST. |
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| Sweden | Twelve digits | SE | SE 123456789001 | |
| The last 2 characters must be ’01′. | ||||
| UK | Nine digits
or Twelve digits |
GB | GB 123456789
or GB 123456789001 |
|
| Twelve digits if the number represents a sub-company within a group | ||||
I really hope this new change won’t be an inconvenience to any of you. If you have any questions regarding this just write to me on support@pagegangster.com.
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