EU VAT & Customs Territory Check by Postcode

Send a country and postcode (or coordinates) and find out whether the place is really inside the EU VAT area, the EU customs territory, the excise area and Schengen. Built for the places checkout and tax tools get wrong: the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, Heligoland, Büsingen, Livigno, Campione d'Italia, Åland, Mount Athos, the French overseas departments, the Channel Islands, Northern Ireland and Monaco.

Runs on bundled, dated reference data. No outside calls, nothing stored beyond your own run.

What you get for each place

Field	Example (Tenerife, 38001)
Territory	Canary Islands
In the EU	yes
In the EU VAT area	no
In the EU customs territory	yes
In the EU excise area	no
In Schengen, and since when	yes, since 1995-03-26
Local indirect tax	IGIC
How it was decided	postcode, coordinates or country default
Confidence and near-border flag	high; true when a point is within 5 km of a territory boundary
Notes and sources	the special rule that applies, with official links and the date they were checked
Checkout answers	charge EU VAT on goods? customs paperwork from and to the EU? EU excise? the standard VAT or local tax rate on the date, each with a reason

Northern Ireland has an extra field, inEUVatAreaForGoods, because EU VAT rules apply there to goods only.

Use it for

• Checkout and tax setup: stop charging EU VAT to Canary Islands or Channel Islands customers, and catch orders that need customs paperwork.
• Shipping and marketplaces: flag addresses that leave the EU customs territory.
• Data cleaning: tag a customer list with the right tax and customs status in one run.
• Travel tools: know whether a destination is in Schengen on a given date.

How to use it

Add items with country (ISO code) and a postcode, or lat and lon. Optional asOf date: answers use the rules in force on that date (for example before and after Croatia joined Schengen on 2023-01-01).

Or paste plain lines, one place per line: ES 38001, GB BT1 1AA, 29.035,-13.63.

Leave the input empty to see three examples.

Output example

Real output (shortened):

{
  "country": "ES",
  "postcode": "38001",
  "territory": { "code": "ES-CN", "name": "Canary Islands" },
  "inEU": true,
  "inEUVatArea": false,
  "inEUCustomsTerritory": true,
  "inEUExciseArea": false,
  "inSchengen": true,
  "schengenSince": "1995-03-26",
  "localTax": "IGIC",
  "basis": "postcode",
  "confidence": "high"
}

Pricing

What	Price
One place classified	$0.0008 ($0.80 per 1,000)
Run start	$0.00005 per run (5 cents per 1,000 runs)

Unknown countries and unreadable input are free. Free Apify plan: up to 50 places per run.

Good to know

• Status follows the European Commission's published territorial-scope table, with each special case noted in the result.
• Coordinates near a border are marked; map outlines can be off by up to about a kilometre.
• Not legal or tax advice. Check with the tax authority or an adviser before relying on a result.

Data sources and credits

EU and national official sources, listed with dates in each result. Map outlines: Natural Earth (public domain); © BKG (2026) dl-de/by-2-0, Datenquellen: https://sg.geodatenzentrum.de/web_public/gdz/datenquellen/datenquellen_vg_nuts.pdf (Helgoland, Büsingen); contains ISTAT data (CC BY 4.0), simplified (Livigno, Campione d'Italia).

Not affiliated with the European Commission or any national authority.

Support

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