zerochak / simple-vat-validator

v1.1.0 2026-09-23 11:16 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.2
• illuminate/contracts: ^10.0|^11.0|^12.0|^13.0
• illuminate/support: ^10.0|^11.0|^12.0|^13.0

Requires (Dev)

• orchestra/testbench: ^8.0|^9.0|^10.0|^11.0
• pestphp/pest: ^2.0|^3.0|^4.0

MIT

• validation
• vat
• laravel
• vies
• eu

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-09-23 11:19 UTC

README

Offline EU VAT number validation for Laravel: per-country format checks plus check-digit verification for Italy, Greece and Romania. It never calls VIES.

Installation

composer require zerochak/simple-vat-validator

Laravel auto-discovers the service provider. On Lumen, register it yourself:

$app->register(Chak\EuVatValidation\EuVatValidationServiceProvider::class);

Usage

Validation rule

use Chak\EuVatValidation\Rules\VatNumber;

$request->validate([
    'vat' => ['required', new VatNumber('IT')],   // validate against a country
    'vat2' => ['nullable', new VatNumber()],     // infer the country from the prefix (e.g. "DE123456789")
]);

Standalone

use Chak\EuVatValidation\Vat;

Vat::isValid('IT00851670943');        // true
Vat::isValid('00851670943', 'IT');    // true, since Italy and Lithuania accept numbers without a prefix
Vat::isValid('EL997969920', 'GR');    // true, because GR is treated as an alias for VIES's EL
Vat::supports('FR');                  // true
Vat::codes();                         // ['AT', 'BE', ...]

Input is case-insensitive, and spaces are ignored.

Supported countries

AT, BE, BG, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, EL (GR), ES, FI, FR, GB, HR, HU, IE, IT, LT, LU, LV, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, SM

Translations

The package ships English and Italian messages. To customise them, publish the language files:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=eu-vat-validation-lang

Testing

composer install
vendor/bin/pest

License

MIT