The Vat API can be used to calculate VATs on goods, validate a company’s VAT number, and get the latest VAT rates for product categories in a country. In abstract-python, the VatAPI class is used to communicate with this API.

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Endpoints

Validate VAT

Validate VAT numbers in your app

Calculate VAT

Calculate the VAT fee on goods in a country

VAT Categories

Get a detailed JSON object of product categories and their VAT fee in each country.

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Supported currency codes

AbstractAPI supports ISO 4217 currency codes for the VAT API which can be found here

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Get currency codes

With abstract-python you can get the supported country codes as a Python List. See usage below: 
from abstract_python import VAT_SUPPORTED_COUNTRIES

print(VAT_SUPPORTED_COUNTRIES)
Below is the result: 
>>> [
    "AT", "BE", "BG", "CY", "CZ", "DE", "DK", "EE", "EL", "ES", "FI", "FR", "HR",
    "HU", "IR", "IT", "LT", "LU", "LV", 
    "MT", "NL", "PL", "PT", "RO", "SE", "SI", "SK", "XI",
    ]

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Use case

If your app receives country codes from users, you may need to validate these inputs before querying the VatAPI class. See usage below: 
from abstract_python import VAT_SUPPORTED_COUNTRIES

country_code = input("Enter a country code")

if country code in VAT_SUPPORTED_COUNTRIES:
    # continue with the app logic
else:
    print(f"{country_code} is not a supported country code")
The code above is a simple console-based program. This technique can also be extended to other programs such as a web app or desktop app.

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Error messages

Refer to this page for all possible error messages you may encounter while using the VatAPI class.