{
  "id": "BRD-032",
  "slug": "brd-032",
  "title": "Submit the identifier in the form the issuing country requires",
  "statement": "For a country on TCR's VAT-optimised list, submit only the numeric portion of the VAT ID; elsewhere submit the corporation registration number or national tax ID.",
  "rationale": "A European VAT number is normally written with its country prefix — GB123456789 — and that prefix is exactly what TCR's lookup does not want. The number is right, the format is wrong, and the rejection says the business could not be verified, which sends people to check their company name. For countries off the optimised list the whole identifier is different: the VAT number will not verify at all and the corporation registration number is what is wanted.",
  "layer": "BRAND",
  "layerSlug": "brand",
  "object": "brand.ein",
  "severity": "BLOCKING",
  "detectability": [
    "DETERMINISTIC"
  ],
  "failureClass": "RETRY_FIELD",
  "authorities": [
    "TCR",
    "Telnyx",
    "AWS"
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Strip the two-letter country prefix from a VAT number and submit the digits only. If your country is not on TCR's VAT-optimised list, submit the corporation registration number from your national companies register instead of the VAT number. Done when the identifier is the bare number the register itself would search on.",
  "example": "ein: 123456789 for a GB VAT registration written GB123456789 — the digits only",
  "pitfalls": [
    "Which countries are on the optimised list changes, and TCR publishes it rather than deriving it. Check the current list before assuming your country qualifies."
  ],
  "notes": "Merges the two branches of one decision (the catalog's BRD-032 and BRD-033): the numeric VAT portion on the optimised list, the corporation registration number off it. Only the first branch is mechanical — the check reports an identifier still carrying its country prefix. Choosing between VAT and corporation number needs the current TCR country list, which we do not hold, so the user has to confirm their country against it themselves before deciding which number to send.",
  "catalogIds": [
    "BRD-033"
  ],
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-032/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-032.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}