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i am starting research on this as eu forces shop owners to actually check vat against the eu system/db.
both of these modules are in dev/not working state and it seems there are no other modules that focus on this problem (im wondering how people do shops with VAT at the moment).

before i start coding i thought i should ask:

What exactly is the difference between this module and
http://drupal.org/project/commerce_eu_vat

vat_number seems to do a VAT/SOAP check and the commerce_eu_vat seems to be a feature module.

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dwkitchen CreditAttribution: dwkitchen commented 11 June 2012 at 18:12

After some initial work and ideas I separated out the VAT soap service as it not just a commerce module and should not have a dependency on it.

Commerce EU VAT than has all the settings in it for European VAT calculation.

If you are doing standard Business to Consumer sales in the EU and do not need to register for VAT in any other country than your own it is possible to set up VAT in Drupal Commerce as it is.

If you are doing Business to Business inter state sales, which I think you are if you need to check the VAT number, you would need this module - however if they are interstate and you have a valid VAT number then there is no VAT.

I have this case as well as working towards a solution for the VAT changes on digital sales that come in to force on 1st Jan 2015.

This is a long term project for something I work on in my spare time as it has no use for my full time job.