# vat.py - functions for handling Italian VAT numbers # # Copyright (C) 2012 Arthur de Jong # # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either # version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA # 02110-1301 USA """Partita IVA (Italian VAT number). The Partita IVA (Imposta sul valore aggiunto) consists of 11 digits. The first 7 digits are a company identifier, the next 3 refer to the province of residence and the last is a check digit. The fiscal code for individuals is not accepted as valid code for intracommunity VAT related operations so it is ignored here. >>> compact('IT 00743110157') '00743110157' >>> is_valid('00743110157') True >>> is_valid('00743110158') # invalid check digit False """ from stdnum import luhn from stdnum.util import clean def compact(number): """Convert the number to the minimal representation. This strips the number of any valid separators and removes surrounding whitespace.""" number = clean(number, ' -:').upper().strip() if number.startswith('IT'): number = number[2:] return number def is_valid(number): """Checks to see if the number provided is a valid VAT number. This checks the length, formatting and check digit.""" try: number = compact(number) except: return False return len(number) == 11 and number.isdigit() and \ int(number[0:7]) > 0 and ( '001' <= number[7:10] <= '100' or number[7:10] in ('120', '121', '888', '999') ) and luhn.is_valid(number)