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To be fair, this might not even have to do with germany, as it queries other countries' VAT registries online, many of which are down for maintainance many hou
by ignifero 15y ago
To be fair, this might not even have to do with germany, as it queries other countries' VAT registries online, many of which are down for maintainance many hours a day. The weird thing is that, even though there is a system for VAT id interconnectivity (VIES) , there is no central database of numbers. [http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/ http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/]
- joelhaasnoot 15y agoFor one thing the complete Dutch Chamber of Commerce database goes offline between 24:00 and 06:00, so you can't check their information. The Dutch Student grant organization (DUO) is also offline between 12 and 6 "to synchronize front and backend systems"
- mhd 15y agoDo you have any information why these databases are down for such a long time, every day? I can't see a really good technical reason for that right now.
- ignifero 15y agoA combination of incompetence, byzantine bureaucracy, under qualified personell, uncooperative subsystems and obscure security here in godforsaken greece