---
id: "gt_nit"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["finances"]
country: ["GT"]
langs: ["es"]
quality: 93
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/gt_nit"
---

# Guatemalan tax number (NIT) (`gt_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 identifier of the Guatemalan tax authority (SAT). It has 2 to 12 characters: digits and a final check character (a digit or K), usually separated by a hyphen. Leading zeros are often left out.

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

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{1,11}-?[0-9K]$
```

## Examples

- `3459079K` — Synthetic number with a valid check digit
- `721490670` — Synthetic number with a valid check digit
- `3459079-K` — The first example in its printed form
- `3459079K7` (invalid example) — One character too many

## Mappings

- orgid: `GT-NIT`
- schema_org: `taxID`
- stdnum: `gt.nit`

## Supported by tools

- `dataprep`
- `pythonstdnum`

## Translations

- es: Número de Identificación Tributaria (NIT)

## Sources

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

## Quality

Score 93/100. Missing: authoritative source link.

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