Tax IDs

Tax IDs identify a business for tax purposes. They appear in two places in the Numeral API:

Merchant profiles — stored on a merchant to identify the selling entity for documentation and reporting. Set when creating or updating a merchant via POST /tax/merchants.
Calculation requests — passed on customer.tax_ids when the customer type is BUSINESS. Numeral uses the tax ID to determine whether reverse-charge or zero-rate rules apply — for example, a VAT-registered business purchasing across EU borders may owe zero tax rather than the standard rate.

A tax ID has two fields: type (from the table below) and value (the actual number):

{
  "tax_ids": [
    { "type": "gb_vat", "value": "GB123456789" }
  ]
}

An object can hold more than one tax ID — for example, a business registered in both the US and the EU:

{
  "tax_ids": [
    { "type": "us_ein", "value": "12-3456789" },
    { "type": "eu_vat", "value": "DE123456789" }
  ]
}

For customers, tax_ids is required for BUSINESS type outside the US, and not allowed for CONSUMER type.

Supported Tax ID Types

Type	Country	Description
`ad_nrt`	Andorra	NRT (Número de Registre Tributari)
`ae_trn`	United Arab Emirates	TRN (Tax Registration Number)
`al_tin`	Albania	TIN
`am_tin`	Armenia	TIN
`ao_tin`	Angola	TIN
`ar_cuit`	Argentina	CUIT (Clave Única de Identificación Tributaria)
`au_abn`	Australia	ABN (Australian Business Number)
`au_arn`	Australia	ARN (ATO Reference Number)
`aw_tin`	Aruba	TIN
`az_tin`	Azerbaijan	TIN
`ba_tin`	Bosnia and Herzegovina	TIN
`bb_tin`	Barbados	TIN
`bd_bin`	Bangladesh	BIN (Business Identification Number)
`bf_ifu`	Burkina Faso	IFU (Identifiant Financier Unique)
`bg_uic`	Bulgaria	UIC (Unified Identification Code)
`bh_vat`	Bahrain	VAT number
`bj_ifu`	Benin	IFU
`bo_tin`	Bolivia	TIN
`br_cnpj`	Brazil	CNPJ (Cadastro Nacional da Pessoa Jurídica)
`br_cpf`	Brazil	CPF (Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas)
`bs_tin`	Bahamas	TIN
`by_tin`	Belarus	TIN
`ca_bn`	Canada	BN (Business Number)
`ca_gst_hst`	Canada	GST/HST number
`ca_pst_bc`	Canada	PST — British Columbia
`ca_pst_mb`	Canada	PST — Manitoba
`ca_pst_sk`	Canada	PST — Saskatchewan
`ca_qst`	Canada	QST (Quebec Sales Tax)
`cd_nif`	Congo	NIF
`ch_uid`	Switzerland	UID (Unternehmens-Identifikationsnummer)
`ch_vat`	Switzerland	VAT number
`cl_tin`	Chile	TIN
`cm_niu`	Cameroon	NIU (Numéro d’Identification Unique)
`cn_tin`	China	TIN
`co_nit`	Colombia	NIT (Número de Identificación Tributaria)
`cr_tin`	Costa Rica	TIN
`cv_nif`	Cape Verde	NIF
`de_stn`	Germany	STN (Steuernummer)
`do_rcn`	Dominican Republic	RCN
`ec_ruc`	Ecuador	RUC (Registro Único de Contribuyentes)
`eg_tin`	Egypt	TIN
`es_cif`	Spain	CIF (Código de Identificación Fiscal)
`et_tin`	Ethiopia	TIN
`eu_oss_vat`	European Union	OSS VAT (One Stop Shop)
`eu_vat`	European Union	VAT number
`gb_vat`	United Kingdom	VAT number
`ge_vat`	Georgia	VAT number
`gh_tin`	Ghana	TIN
`gn_nif`	Guinea	NIF
`hk_br`	Hong Kong	BR (Business Registration Number)
`hr_oib`	Croatia	OIB (Osobni identifikacijski broj)
`hu_tin`	Hungary	TIN
`id_npwp`	Indonesia	NPWP (Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak)
`il_vat`	Israel	VAT number
`in_gst`	India	GST number
`is_vat`	Iceland	VAT number
`jp_cn`	Japan	CN (Corporate Number)
`jp_rn`	Japan	RN (Registered Number)
`jp_trn`	Japan	TRN
`ke_pin`	Kenya	PIN (Personal Identification Number)
`kg_tin`	Kyrgyzstan	TIN
`kh_tin`	Cambodia	TIN
`kr_brn`	South Korea	BRN (Business Registration Number)
`kz_bin`	Kazakhstan	BIN (Business Identification Number)
`la_tin`	Laos	TIN
`li_uid`	Liechtenstein	UID
`li_vat`	Liechtenstein	VAT number
`ma_vat`	Morocco	VAT number
`md_vat`	Moldova	VAT number
`me_pib`	Montenegro	PIB (Poreski identifikacioni broj)
`mk_vat`	North Macedonia	VAT number
`mr_nif`	Mauritania	NIF
`mx_rfc`	Mexico	RFC (Registro Federal de Contribuyentes)
`my_frp`	Malaysia	FRP
`my_itn`	Malaysia	ITN (Income Tax Number)
`my_sst`	Malaysia	SST (Sales and Service Tax)
`ng_tin`	Nigeria	TIN
`no_vat`	Norway	VAT number
`no_voec`	Norway	VOEC (VAT on E-Commerce)
`np_pan`	Nepal	PAN (Permanent Account Number)
`nz_gst`	New Zealand	GST number
`om_vat`	Oman	VAT number
`pe_ruc`	Peru	RUC (Registro Único de Contribuyentes)
`ph_tin`	Philippines	TIN
`ro_tin`	Romania	TIN
`rs_pib`	Serbia	PIB (Poreski identifikacioni broj)
`ru_inn`	Russia	INN (Individual Taxpayer Number)
`ru_kpp`	Russia	KPP (Tax Registration Reason Code)
`sa_vat`	Saudi Arabia	VAT number
`sg_gst`	Singapore	GST number
`sg_uen`	Singapore	UEN (Unique Entity Number)
`si_tin`	Slovenia	TIN
`sn_ninea`	Senegal	NINEA
`sr_fin`	Suriname	FIN
`sv_nit`	El Salvador	NIT (Número de Identificación Tributaria)
`th_vat`	Thailand	VAT number
`tj_tin`	Tajikistan	TIN
`tr_tin`	Turkey	TIN
`tw_vat`	Taiwan	VAT number
`tz_vat`	Tanzania	VAT number
`ua_vat`	Ukraine	VAT number
`ug_tin`	Uganda	TIN
`us_ein`	United States	EIN (Employer Identification Number)
`uy_ruc`	Uruguay	RUC
`uz_tin`	Uzbekistan	TIN
`uz_vat`	Uzbekistan	VAT number
`ve_rif`	Venezuela	RIF (Registro de Información Fiscal)
`vn_tin`	Vietnam	TIN
`za_vat`	South Africa	VAT number
`zm_tin`	Zambia	TIN
`zw_tin`	Zimbabwe	TIN

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