Codice Fiscale (Italian Tax ID)

A Ruby gem that calculates the Codice Fiscale (Italian Tax ID).

The Codice Fiscale is an identifier unique to each person that is used when dealing with Italian government offices or for private concerns and is formulated using a combination of the person’s name, place and date of birth. Usually it is attributed by the Office of Income Revenue (Agenzia delle Entrate) through local tax offices.

The code is 16 characters long and includes both letters and numbers, for e.g: RSSMRA90A01H501W (taken from this sample card). Read more on wikipedia or here.

Installation

WARNING: The gem name on rubygems.org is "codice-fiscale" not "codice_fiscale"

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

    source 'https://rubygems.org'
    gem 'codice-fiscale'

And then execute the bundle install command.

Usage

  require 'codice_fiscale'

  CodiceFiscale.calculate(
    :name          => 'Mario',
    :surname       => 'Rossi',
    :gender        => :male,
    :birthdate     => Date.new(1987, 1, 1),
    :province_code => 'MI',
    :city_name     => 'Milano'
  )
  # => RSSMRA87A01F205E

City codes (Codici Catastali)

As explained above, one of the information required to calculate the tax ID is the birthplace.
If a person was born outside Italy, only the italian name of the country is required.
For example, an italian citizen born in France:

  CodiceFiscale.calculate(
    :name         => 'Mario', 
    :surname      => 'Rossi', 
    :gender       => :male, 
    :birthdate    => Date.new(1987, 1, 1), 
    :country_name => 'Francia'
  )
  # => RSSMRA87A01Z110I

If a person was born in Italy you have to specify the code of the province and the name of the city. These informations are actually contained in a CSV document downloaded from istat.it, converted and shipped with this gem.

But what if you have your own table with all those codes?

In this case, you can add a custom block that fetches the codes from your database:

config/initializers/codice_fiscale_initializer.rb:

  CodiceFiscale.config.country_code do |country_name|
    # Place your code here, for e.g.:
    YourCountryActiveRecordModel.find_by_name(country_name).code
    # So that given for e.g. country_name="Denmark" the returned code must be "Z107"
    # Checkout the file ./lib/codice_fiscale/codes/country_codes.csv
  end

  CodiceFiscale.config.city_code do |city_name, province_code|
    # Place your code here, for e.g.:
    YourCityActiveRecordModel.find_by_province_and_city(province_code, city_name).code
    # So that given for e.g. city_name="Fiumicino", province_code="RM" the returned code must be "M297"
    # Checkout the file ./lib/codice_fiscale/codes/city_codes.csv
  end

Testing

$ bundle exec rspec

This gem is tested with all ruby versions starting from 1.9.3.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request