don’t use vat for Germany country

If Germany is your shop’s base country, the EU VAT Assistant won’t tell WooCommerce to apply a VAT exemption, even when the customer enters a valid EU VAT number.

If Germany is not your shop’s base country, and you simply want to prevent a VAT exemption in all cases, you can Write a filter for hook wc_aelia_eu_vat_assistant_customer_vat_exemption. In the filter, check if the country is Germany and, in that case, disable the exemption.

Example

add_filter('wc_aelia_eu_vat_assistant_customer_vat_exemption', function($customer_vat_exemption, $vat_country, $vat_number) {
  if($customer_vat_exemption && ($vat_country === 'DE')) {
    // Always return false for Germany, to disable the VAT exemption
    $customer_vat_exemption = false;
  }
  return false;
}, 10, 3);

Important
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• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Diego. Reason: Added tags

but the other country needs to continue working on the UK case

The custom code I posted ensures that the VAT exemption is not applied to Germany. It doesn’t affect any other countries.

Please note that the EU VAT Assistant doesn’t support the validation of UK VAT numbers, and can’t apply an exemption for them. If you need to be able to validate UK VAT numbers, the VAT Compliance plugin by Simba Hosting can handle that aspect. It’s also the solution we recommend to replace the EU VAT Assistant, which will be retired on the 30th of June 2022.