E-invoice / Rules / BR-14

E-invoice rule EN 16931 schematron

BR-14: Missing: the invoice total amount with VAT

Missing: the invoice total amount with VAT (BT-112). Add the element cbc:TaxInclusiveAmount to cac:LegalMonetaryTotal.

Original wording of the rule

[BR-14]-An Invoice shall have the Invoice total amount with VAT (BT-112).

Source of the quotation: EN 16931 schematron (ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931, licence EUPL 1.2)

How to fix it

1. Open the XML file and find the element cac:LegalMonetaryTotal/cbc:TaxInclusiveAmount.
2. Add or correct the element the way the wording of the rule above asks for.
3. Save the file and check it again with our checker. It runs in your browser, the file is never uploaded.

A correct UBL 2.1 snippet

<cac:LegalMonetaryTotal
    xmlns:cac="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2"
    xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2">
  <cbc:TaxInclusiveAmount currencyID="EUR">100.00</cbc:TaxInclusiveAmount>
</cac:LegalMonetaryTotal>

The snippet is only the part of the document the rule is about. Put it in the right place inside your invoice; the namespaces are written here only so that the snippet reads on its own.

When it is reported

Profile: EN 16931, Peppol BIS Billing 3.0, XRechnung 3.x

How we rate it: error

UBL elements: cbc:TaxInclusiveAmount, cac:LegalMonetaryTotal

Where we point in the file: /Invoice/cac:LegalMonetaryTotal

Related rules

• BR-12 Missing: the sum of invoice line net amounts (BT-106)
• BR-13 Missing: the invoice total amount without VAT (BT-109)
• BR-15 Missing: the amount due for payment (BT-115)
• BR-16 The invoice has no lines at all (BG-25)
• BR-17 The payee (BG-10) needs its own name in cac:PartyName/cbc:Name and it

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