{"id":446,"date":"2025-03-20T17:26:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/documentation.wpgetpaid.com\/?post_type=gd_place&#038;p=446"},"modified":"2025-03-26T13:53:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:53:48","slug":"settings-overview-for-settings-taxes-eu-vat-settings","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/article\/explore-settings\/settings-overview-for-settings-taxes-eu-vat-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Settings Overview for Settings > Taxes > EU VAT Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the settings overview for <strong>GetPaid &gt; Settings &gt; Taxes &gt; EU VAT Settings <\/strong>page.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Your Company Details&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Your Company Name &#8211; <\/strong>The name of your company.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your VAT Number &#8211; <\/strong>Specify your VAT number.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Apply VAT Settings&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Enable VAT Rules &#8211; <\/strong>Check to apply&nbsp;VAT to consumer sales from IP addresses within the EU, even if the billing address is outside the EU.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prevent EU B2C Sales &#8211; <\/strong>You should enable this option if you are not registered for VAT in the EU.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Same Country Rule &#8211; <\/strong>Select how you want to handle VAT charge if sales are in the same country as the base country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Checkout Fields&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Disable VAT Fields &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong>Disable VAT fields if GetPaid is being used for GST.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MaxMind License Key &#8211; <\/strong>Input the license key for the MaxMind Geolocation service.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>IP Country Lookup &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong>Select the option that&nbsp;should be used to determine the country from the IP address of the user.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enable IP Country as Default &#8211; <\/strong>Show the country of the users IP as the default country, otherwise the site default country will be used.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>VIES Validation&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Disable VIES VAT ID Check &#8211; <\/strong>Disable VAT number validation by the <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/taxation_customs\/vies\/\">EU VIES system<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Disable VIES Name Check &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong>Disable company name validation by the <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/taxation_customs\/vies\/\">EU VIES system<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Disable Basic Checks &#8211; <\/strong>Disable basic checks for the correct format of VAT number (not recommended).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the settings overview for GetPaid &gt; Settings &gt; Taxes &gt; EU VAT Settings page.&nbsp; Your Company Details&nbsp; Your Company Name &#8211; The name of your company.&nbsp; Your VAT Number &#8211; Specify your VAT number.&nbsp; Apply VAT Settings&nbsp; Enable VAT Rules &#8211; Check to apply&nbsp;VAT to consumer sales from IP addresses within the EU, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[263,264,265,266],"article\/categories":[208,214],"class_list":["post-446","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_place_tags-taxes","gd_place_tags-vat","gd_place_tags-eu-vat","gd_place_tags-eu-tax-settings","gd_placecategory-getting-started","gd_placecategory-explore-settings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gd_place"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}