How to validate customer country on WooCommerce checkout with PayPal?

akf08
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My website:

- charges VAT only to EU countries (different rates based on their country), 0% tax for rest of the world

- offers only digital products

- Based in UK, selling globally

 

My problem:

- I don't want customers to be able to pay if they pick (lie) about their country to avoid paying VAT tax

- For example, they can be based in France (20% tax) but click on 'USA' which in our case would have 0% tax, therefore they would not pay tax they should be paying

 

Solution needed:

- I want the order to be rejected if the country location does not match the country of the customer PayPal account

- There was a really easy fix with Stripe where the order (and payment) gets rejected if the customer input country does not match the customer country code on PayPal 

 

Is there a way to do this with our PayPal Merchant account?

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akf08
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Bump for visibility, I'm completely stuck and I can't grow my business without this working!

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