Validation not working – still adding VAT

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When this happends if billing country is same as shop country – still charging VAT

Bassically this option is no longer working:

Enable this option to deduct VAT from orders placed by customers who are located in your shop’s base country, if they enter a valid EU VAT number.

even if these are ticked

Accept VAT numbers as valid when the remote service is busy
Accept VAT numbers as valid when the remote service is unavailable
Accept VAT numbers as valid when the remote service is handling too many requests

Invalid requester VAT number entered in section Options > VIES Validation. The requester VAT number has been saved, but the remote VIES service will reject it, causing the VAT number validation at checkout to fail. If you do not have a valid EU VAT number, please leave the field empty.

Selected VAT Country: "Romania". Entered VAT Number: "41508589". Raw validation response (JSON):

{
    "valid": null,
    "company_name": null,
    "company_address": null,
    "errors": [
        "An error occurred initialising SOAP client. Error message: \"wsdl error: Getting https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/taxation_customs\/vies\/checkVatService.wsdl - HTTP ERROR: Unsupported HTTP response status 307 Temporary Redirect (soapclient->response has contents of the response)\"."
    ],
    "raw_response": null,
    "validation_source": "",
    "euva_validation_result": "could-not-be-validated"
}