- The Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt) announced that, starting November 30, 2025, the verification of foreign VAT numbers will transition to a new technical interface, only accessible through REST API requests.
- This change aims to modernize and automate the tax verification process, allowing German taxable persons to verify EU partners’ VAT numbers directly through BZSt’s intermediary access to individual Member States’ TAX ID databases.
- Taxable persons using in-house software solutions, like VAT Lookup, must update their systems to ensure compatibility with the new BZSt service for efficient and consistent Tax ID validation.
Source: 1stopvat.com
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