Datatypes

Irish VAT number

ID ie_vat

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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VAT registration number in Ireland. It has eight or nine characters: seven digits and one or two letters. An older form has a letter or symbol in the second position.

Parent datatype
EU VAT ID vatin
Categories
Finances and banking
Countries
Ireland
Languages
English
Schema.org
vatID
python-stdnum
stdnum.ie.vat
Quality
88/100 · missing: authoritative source link, translation
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
AWS Glue Sensitive Data Detection, DataPrep, python-stdnum

Regular expression

^(?:IE[ -]?)?(?:\d{7}[A-W][A-IW]?|\d[A-Z+*]\d{5}[A-W])$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
IE 9679477VReal-world value published online
IE6599001WReal-world value published online
9679477V7 invalidOne character too many

Sources

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