[Erp5-dev] person and vat code

[Bartek Gorny]

Hello,

I just noticed that the Organisation property sheet provides a
vat_code property, but the Person property sheet does not, so a person
has no vat_code. The Person has only a "social_code".

I don't know about France, but in Poland every organisation and every
person has a Tax Identification Number (NIP), which in case of a
person is used e.g. for filing annual tax forms, and of an
organisation for vat settlements, invoicing and everything else. Also,
if someone starts doing business and pays VAT, he uses his personal
NIP for vat settlements. In many accounting, financial, trade and
other applications NIP is used to property identify a
person/organisation and to make sure it is unique system-wide.

As far as the "social code" is concerned - I don't know what it is in
France, but in Poland I'd interpret is as the PESEL number, which is a
unique number assigned to every citizen - and this would be
consistent, because organisations do not have PESELs.

So, the question is: is it similar in other countries? If so, would it
be a good idea to give a vat_code to a Person type and catalog it? If
not, then maybe a localisation template should provide it?

Bartek

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