Great Britain

Check a company in the UK business register

From March 2019, with the preparations for Brexit, VATify.eu makes parallel verifications of British businesses in VIES and the UK government's company register (Companies House).

VATify.eu retrieves the title, address, sector, VAT ID, registration number and date, the status of the registration and valid VAT rates.

Collection of additional information (shareholders, signatories) is planned for the future.

As of 1st of January 2021, when the Brexit transition period ends, VIES validations for UK companies will no longer work. Use VATify.eu to verify British VAT IDs:

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Daily monitoring and JSON API also available.

Notification samples

When a change with a particular company is noted, a notification with registered changes will be sent to you. Once per week, VATify.eu sends a status report(XLSX file) with all available data on companies you are tracking.

Unique company identifier

UK companies have multiple unique identifiers,:

company registration number (CRN), issued when the company is formed and registered in the Companies House register,
VAT ID, issued when a company is registered for VAT.

VATify.eu checks companies using the VAT number in VIES (companies in Northern Ireland only) and CRN in the Companies House register. Here is a list of valid number formats:

Type	Number format	Description
VAT ID	XI123 4567 89	9 digit code - standard (companies in Northern Ireland only)
VAT ID	XI123 4567 89 012	12 digit code - branch traders (companies in Northern Ireland only)
VAT ID	XIGD123	GD and 3 digits - government departments (companies in Northern Ireland only)
VAT ID	XIHA123	HA and 3 digits - health authorities (companies in Northern Ireland only)
CRN	12345678	8 digit code - standard
CRN	AB123456	2 letter prefix and 6 digit code - letters defining various regions or statuses
CRN	A1234567	1 letter prefix and 7 digit code - older codes

Covering more than 40 countries

VATify.eu verifies companies in more than 40 countries, EU and beyond - from Portugal in the west to Russia in the east and from Norway in the north to Cyprus , Israel and South Africa in the south.