---
id: "co_nit"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["finances"]
country: ["CO"]
langs: ["es"]
quality: 88
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/co_nit"
---

# Colombian tax identification number (NIT) (`co_nit`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Número de Identificación Tributaria, the tax number of businesses and other taxpayers in Colombia, also called the RUT number (Registro Único Tributario). It has 7 to 15 digits and a check digit, and is often written with dots and a hyphen before the check digit.

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Finances and banking (finances)
- Countries: Colombia (CO)
- Languages: Spanish (es)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{1,3}(?:\.?\d{3}){2,4}-?\d$
```

## Examples

- `8253396981` — Synthetic number with a valid check digit
- `9060174050` — Synthetic number with a valid check digit
- `825.339.698-1` — The first example in its printed form

## Mappings

- orgid: `CO-NIT`, `CO-RUE`
- schema_org: `taxID`
- stdnum: `co.nit`

## Supported by tools

- `amazonmacie`
- `awsglue`
- `dataprep`
- `nightfall`
- `pythonstdnum`

## Translations

- es: Número de Identificación Tributaria (NIT)

## Sources

- other: <https://arthurdejong.org/python-stdnum/doc/2.2/stdnum.co.nit.html>
- other: <https://docs.dataprep.ai/user_guide/clean/clean_co_nit.html>

## Quality

Score 88/100. Missing: negative example, authoritative source link.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/co_nit.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/CO/finances/co_nit.yaml>