EU VAT guide
MS_MAX_CONCURRENT_REQ VIES error
MS_MAX_CONCURRENT_REQ means the selected member-state VAT registry is receiving too many concurrent requests through VIES.
Country-specific limit
The VIES gateway may be reachable while a single national registry is overloaded or rate-limited.
A German VAT check and a French VAT check can therefore return different availability outcomes at the same moment.
How to handle it
Retry later and consider per-country concurrency limits if you run repeated validations.
Do not convert this response into invalid customer VAT data.
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