Colombia NIT lookup
Type a Colombian tax ID (NIT) to check its DIAN check digit and see what the RUES commercial registry kept by the chambers of commerce has on file: the legal name, whether the registration is active, the last year it was renewed, and a pass, review or fail verdict with reasons in English.
No account needed: 10 lookups a day per network, shared with the keyless API and the other countries. Examples: 860002964-4, 890903938.
What the lookup shows
| Field | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Check digit | The digit after the dash (860002964-4), computed with DIAN's algorithm. If you type the NIT without it, we compute it for you. |
| Registration status | Whether the commercial registration (matrícula mercantil) is active or cancelled, for example for not renewing (Law 1429) or after a merger. |
| Last renewal | Colombian merchants must renew their registration every year by March 31. |
| Verdict | Pass: active and renewed for the current year (or the previous one before April). Review: active but renewal overdue, unusual status, or not in the registry. Fail: wrong check digit or cancelled registration. |
Commercial registry, not tax status
RUES is the registry of the chambers of commerce. It is not DIAN's tax registry (RUT), so it does not show whether a company is up to date with its taxes. Entities that do not register with a chamber of commerce, such as some public bodies, may not appear.
Individuals and privacy
For NITs that belong to individual merchants (personas naturales) we only show whether the check digit is valid and the status of the registration. We never show the name, the legal representative or any address.
Source and licence
Data comes live from the dataset Personas Naturales, Personas Jurídicas y Entidades Sin Ánimo de Lucro published by Confecámaras (RUES) on datos.gov.co under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. We do not store the registry; answers are cached for up to 24 hours. Results derived from it, on this page and in the API, are shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Checking many suppliers?
Same key, same quota as every other country (100 lookups a day per key). See the API docs.
curl https://taxid.halpii.com/v1/co/nit/860002964-4An independent service run by HALPII S.A.C. (Lima, Peru), not affiliated with or endorsed by Confecámaras, the chambers of commerce or DIAN. Results are informational, not legal or tax advice. Also available: Peru RUC · Mexico RFC · Colombia NIT · Costa Rica cédula.