Create Event to hook-into VAT validation.

[lenvanessen]

What are you trying to do?
We want to be able to hook into the VAT validation to be able to add some additional business logic. In our case:

• Only validate the number if the country is not equal to the store country
• Check if the VAT-code matches with the given country of shipment, rather then allowing people to use VAT-codes beloning to other countries.

What's your proposed solution?
Drop-in a event somewhere in the VAT validation process.

[lenvanessen]

Or allow a custom VAT validator to be used, rather than the default one

[lenvanessen]

Hi Guys,

We urgently need this, currently there is no way to properly adjust the vat validation logic, and it's flawed. We have people placing orders with 0% vat, with a shipping country set to Germany and using a Belgium VAT number. While it is indeed a valid VAT number, it does not meet the requirements for EU vat exception.

It should be really easy to make this extendable, by event or a configuration for a custom vat validation class. Pretty please, can we have an event?

[lenvanessen]

@lukeholder @brandonkelly could anyone pick this up? Our client's left paying the taxes for people fraudulently using foreign tax numbers that don't match the country where the bill/goods are going to. It's been three years and no movement here, how can we get this moving along? Would a PR help? If yes, what approach? Adding an event when the vat validation is done to override the result?