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This is a simple PHP library to help you deal with Europe's VAT rules.

Fetch VAT rates for any EU member state using Ibericode/vat-rates.
Validate VAT numbers (by format and/or existence)
Validate ISO-3316 alpha-2 country codes
Determine whether a country is part of the EU
Geo-locate IP addresses

Installation

PHP version 7.1 or higher with the CURL and JSON extension is required.

For VAT number existence checking, the PHP SOAP extension is required as well.

To get the latest stable version, install the package using Composer:

composer require laraben/vat

Usage

This library exposes 4 main classes to interact with: Rates, Countries, Validator and Geolocator.

Retrieving VAT rates.

$rates = new Laraben\Vat\Rates('/path-for-storing-cache-file.txt');
$rates->getRatesForCountry('NL'); // array with different rates
$rates->getRateForCountry('NL'); // 21
$rates->getRateForCountry('NL', 'standard'); // 21
$rates->getRateForCountry('NL', 'reduced'); // 9
$rates->getRateForCountryOnDate('NL', new \Datetime('2010-01-01'), 'standard'); // 19

This fetches rate from Ibericode/vat-rates and stores a local copy that is periodically refreshed (once every 12 hours by default).

Validation

Validating a VAT number:

$validator = new Laraben\Vat\Validator();
$validator->validateVatNumberFormat('NL203458239B01'); // true (checks format)
$validator->validateVatNumber('NL203458239B01'); // false (checks format + existence)

Validating an IP address:

$validator = new Laraben\Vat\Validator();
$validator->validateIpAddress('256.256.256.256'); // false
$validator->validateIpAddress('8.8.8.8'); // true

Validating an ISO-3166-1-alpha2 country code:

$validator = new Laraben\Vat\Validator();
$validator->validateCountryCode('DE'); // true
$validator->validateCountryCode('ZZ'); // false

Dealing with ISO-3166-1-alpha2 country codes

$countries = new Laraben\Vat\Countries();

// access country name using array access
echo $countries['NL']; // Netherlands

// loop over countries
foreach ($countries as $code => $name) {
    // ...
}

// check if country is in EU
$countries->isCountryCodeInEU('NL'); // true
$countries->isCountryCodeInEU('US'); // false

Geo-location

This library includes a simple geo-location service using ip2c.org or ip2country.info.

$geolocator = new Laraben\Vat\Geolocator();
$geolocator->locateIpAddress('8.8.8.8'); // US

To use ip2country.info explicitly.

$geolocator = new Laraben\Vat\Geolocator('ip2country.info');
$geolocator->locateIpAddress('8.8.8.8'); // US

Or, to use ip2c.org explicitly.

$geolocator = new Laraben\Vat\Geolocator('ip2c.org');
$geolocator->locateIpAddress('8.8.8.8'); // US

Symfony support

If you need to use this package in a Symfony environment, check out Ibericode/vat-bundle.

License

Laraben/vat is licensed under the MIT License.

laraben / vat

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