2250825 - AR190 or AR196 Compliant VAT number in European Union

Symptom

You create a customer or a vendor from a European Country in CRM with BP transaction code or in WebUI but the VAT number is not accepted and the partner therefore not be saved.

Error: AR190 - "VAT registration number is invalid"

Error: AR196 - "VAT registration number contains invalid characters"

occur.

Environment

•SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
•SAP enhancement package for SAP CRM
•SAP enhancement package for SAP CRM, version for SAP HANA

Product

SAP Customer Relationship Management 2005 ; SAP Customer Relationship Management 2007 ; SAP Customer Relationship Management 4.0 ; SAP Customer Relationship Management 7.0 ; SAP Customer Relationship Management 7.0 on SAP enhancement package 1 for SAP NetWeaver 7.0 ; SAP enhancement package 1 for SAP CRM 7.0 ; SAP enhancement package 2 for SAP CRM 7.0 ; SAP enhancement package 2 for SAP CRM 7.0, version for SAP HANA ; SAP enhancement package 3 for SAP CRM 7.0 ; SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP CRM 7.0

Keywords

VAT number,Europe, TAX, EU_TAX_NUMBER_CHECK, OY17, TFKTAXNUMTYPE, registration, register, self employed NL, Netherlands , KBA , CRM-BF-TAX , Tax Determination , CRM-MD-BP , Business Partners , CRM-MD-BP-IF , Data Exchange CRM Online <-> R/3 , Problem

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