Panama RUC Scraper — DGI Company Registry & E-Invoicing Status

Scrape Panama's public DGI registry of electronic invoicers (Facturadores Electrónicos, Dirección General de Ingresos) by RUC or company name and get back a clean, English-keyed record: legal name, RUC, whether the taxpayer is affiliated to electronic invoicing and actually issuing e-invoices, its invoicing mode, affiliation date and registered commercial activity — plus a tax-delinquency flag from the DGI's official Listado de Morosos (taxpayers with arrears older than twelve months), with the amount owed per tax.

One RUC in, one structured record out — or one company name in, every registered match out. No account, no API key, no captcha solving: this Actor reads the same public search page a Panamanian accountant uses (Consulta RUC Panamá) and normalizes it for machines.

What you get

For RUC 280-134-61098:

{
  "found": true,
  "query": "280-134-61098",
  "queryType": "ruc",
  "country": "PA",
  "ruc": "280-134-61098",
  "rucType": "company",
  "legalName": "BANCO GENERAL S A",
  "isAffiliated": true,
  "isIssuingElectronicInvoices": true,
  "invoicingMode": "pac",
  "invoicingModeOriginal": "PAC",
  "affiliationDate": "2023-11-02",
  "commercialActivity": "Servicios financieros, excepto seguros y fondos de pensiones",
  "dgiDelinquentListChecked": true,
  "onDgiDelinquentList": false,
  "dgiDelinquentTotalUsd": 0,
  "dgiDelinquentTaxes": [],
  "dgiDelinquentListDate": "2026-01-13",
  "source": "DGI — Dirección General de Ingresos de Panamá, Facturadores Electrónicos",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-19T10:20:00.000Z"
}

Why this data matters

Electronic invoicing is mandatory in Panama. Since the DGI's phased roll-out, a business that is not affiliated to Factura Electrónica cannot issue a valid tax invoice — and an invoice you cannot deduct is a cost. isAffiliated and isIssuingElectronicInvoices tell you, from the authority's own list, whether a supplier can bill you legally today.

The RUC is confirmed by the state, not by the supplier. You get the legal name the DGI holds against that RUC, so the name on the contract, the name on the invoice and the name in the registry can be matched automatically.

Names resolve to RUCs. A name search returns every registrant whose name contains your text, with its RUC — the fastest way to turn a supplier list without tax IDs into one with them.

Commercial activity and affiliation date add context for KYB: what the company is registered to do, and how long it has been in the e-invoicing system.

The delinquency flag is the DGI's own list. Under Resolución 201-10281 the DGI publishes every natural and legal person with tax arrears older than twelve months, by RUC and tax type. onDgiDelinquentList tells you whether your counterparty is on it, dgiDelinquentTotalUsd how much is owed, and dgiDelinquentTaxes splits it by tax (202 - ITBMS, 101 - RENTA, …). A supplier with six figures of unpaid ITBMS is a different credit risk from one with a clean record — now you see it in the same row.

Use cases

You are	You use it for
Accounts payable / procurement	Check that a Panamanian supplier can issue valid e-invoices before paying
KYB / AML platform	Confirm RUC ↔ legal name and enrich with activity and affiliation date
Fintech / lender	Verify borrowers and merchants against a government list
B2B sales team	Resolve company names to RUCs and qualify by activity
Data team	Enrich a Panama company list with authoritative registry fields

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
queries	array	—	RUC numbers (280-134-61098, 8-222-2782, 155780087-2-2026) for exact matches and/or company names for name searches. One per line; mixing is fine.
maxResultsPerName	integer	50	Cap per name search. RUC searches return the single exact match.
checkDelinquentList	boolean	true	Downloads the DGI Listado de Morosos once per run (~14 MB, 10–20 s) and adds the delinquency fields to every RUC-bearing record. Turn off for name-only runs where you do not need it.
includeRaw	boolean	false	Attaches the untouched registry row under raw for auditing.
maxConcurrency	integer	3	Parallel lookups, capped at 5. It is a public service; stay polite.
requestTimeoutSecs	integer	30
maxRetries	integer	3	Exponential backoff on 429 and 5xx.
proxyConfiguration	object	off	Only needed if the registry rate-limits the datacenter IP.

Simplest possible run:

{ "queries": ["280-134-61098", "Banco General"] }

Output notes

• Every RUC query produces exactly one dataset item; a name query produces one item per match (matchIndex / matchTotal tell you where you are in the result set).
• Failures are data, not silence: a RUC or name with no match comes back with found: false and error: "not_found"; network problems come back as lookup_failed.
• rucType is inferred from the RUC's shape — company for Registro Público folio formats, natural_person for province-based cédula formats and E-/N-/PE- prefixes, unknown otherwise.
• invoicingMode is pac (invoices through an authorised provider, Proveedor Autorizado Calificado) or free_invoicer (the DGI's free tool); the Spanish original is kept in invoicingModeOriginal.
• Dates are ISO (YYYY-MM-DD).
• Delinquency fields: dgiDelinquentListChecked (was the list available this run), onDgiDelinquentList, dgiDelinquentTotalUsd, dgiDelinquentTaxes ([{ "tax": "202 - ITBMS", "amountUsd": 887.03 }]) and dgiDelinquentListDate (publication date of the list as served by the DGI). The list has no names, so it is matched by RUC only.
• A RUC that is not in the e-invoicing registry but is on the delinquent list comes back as found: false, error: "not_found" with the delinquency fields — you still learn what the DGI holds against it.

Pricing

Pay per event, and you only pay for what the registry actually returned:

Event	Price	When
Company record	$0.014	Once per record returned — one per RUC found, one per match in a name search, and one per RUC that is missing from the e-invoicing registry but present on the delinquent list (you received DGI data)
Actor start	$0.0001	Container startup. Not an access fee.

Not-found RUCs and names are free, so a dirty input list costs you nothing extra. There is no minimum spend and no subscription.

A worked example: verifying 500 supplier RUCs — 500 × $0.014 = $7.00.

Notes on the source

Data comes from two public DGI publications: the Facturadores Electrónicos search at dgi-fep.mef.gob.pa, and the Listado de Morosos workbook at dgi.mef.gob.pa/listados-moroso/. This Actor does not bypass any access control, does not authenticate and does not solve captchas — it submits the same public search form a browser does and downloads the same public file, passing the values through unchanged.

Delinquent list freshness. The DGI updates the workbook on its own schedule (typically weeks apart). dgiDelinquentListDate tells you which edition your run used; a taxpayer who settled yesterday can still appear until the next edition.

Coverage. This is the registry of taxpayers affiliated to Panama's electronic-invoicing system, not the complete RUC roll. A RUC that is not_found here may still exist as a taxpayer that has not yet joined e-invoicing — the message says so explicitly. As the mandate expands, coverage of active businesses grows with it.

Personal data. Sole traders (personas naturales) appear with their cédula-based RUC. Treat those records as personal data under your own GDPR / Ley 81 obligations.

Not an official DGI product. This Actor is an independent tool built by Echocall LLC. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Dirección General de Ingresos, the Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas or any Panamanian government body. "DGI" and "RUC" are used descriptively to name the public data source.

Roadmap

Next for Panama: officers and directors from the Registro Público, once the public interface can be read without circumventing anything. Same schema across the region: Ecuador (SRI, with ghost-taxpayer flags and firm tax debts) and Costa Rica (Hacienda, with moroso / omiso flags) are already live — see Related Actors.

FAQ

How do I look up a RUC number in Panama?

The DGI publishes its list of electronic invoicers as an open search. This Actor queries it for you and hands back structured JSON, CSV or Excel instead of a web page — one row per RUC, in bulk.

What is a RUC in Panama?

The Registro Único de Contribuyentes is Panama's tax identifier. For companies it derives from the Registro Público folio (for example 280-134-61098 or the newer 155780087-2-2026); for natural persons it is the cédula (8-222-2782) or a residency-based number (E-8-123456). The DV (check digits) are not part of the registry's display and are not needed for the search.

Can I search by company name?

Yes. Any entry that is not shaped like a RUC is treated as a name and matched against the registry's name field, returning every registrant that contains it, up to maxResultsPerName.

Does a not_found mean the company does not exist?

No. It means the RUC is not in the electronic-invoicing registry. The company may exist and simply not be affiliated yet; the error message states this.

What does onDgiDelinquentList: true mean exactly?

That the RUC appears on the DGI's published list of taxpayers with arrears older than twelve months (Listado de Morosos), in the edition dated dgiDelinquentListDate. It is the authority's own statement, not our assessment. Amounts are as published, in USD (Panama's balboa is pegged 1:1).

Is scraping the DGI registry legal?

This Actor reads a public government service. It does not authenticate, does not bypass access controls and does not solve captchas. Sole traders are natural persons, so treat their records as personal data under your own obligations.

How much does a lookup cost?

$0.014 per record returned; misses are free. Every new Apify account includes free monthly usage credit, which covers a few hundred lookups before you pay anything.

Related Actors

• Ecuador SRI RUC Scraper — the official Ecuadorian registry with ghost-taxpayer fraud flags and firm tax debts.
• Costa Rica Cedula Scraper — Costa Rica's Hacienda registry, including the moroso and omiso flags.
• LATAM Company Registry Scraper — one call for a mixed list of Ecuadorian RUCs and Costa Rican cédulas, returning a single shared schema.