Datatypes

Maltese VAT number

ID mt_vat

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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VAT registration number in Malta: eight digits, the first not 0, with a weighted check.

Parent datatype
EU VAT ID vatin
Categories
Finances and banking
Countries
Malta
Languages
Maltese, English
Schema.org
vatID
python-stdnum
stdnum.mt.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

^(?:MT[ -]?)?[1-9]\d{3}[ -]?\d{4}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
MT 20630321Real-world value published online
MT 17025737Real-world value published online
206303217 invalidOne character too many

Sources

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