E-invoice rule EN 16931
BR-19: The seller tax representative (BG-11) needs a postal address (BG-12, cac:PostalAddress)
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The seller tax representative (BG-11) needs a postal address (BG-12, cac:PostalAddress).
What the rule says
[BR-19]-The Seller tax representative postal address (BG-12) shall be provided in the Invoice, if the Seller (BG-4) has a Seller tax representative party (BG-11).
Source of the quotation: EN 16931 schematron (ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931, licence EUPL 1.2)
Business terms in the wording: BG-12, BG-4, BG-11
Why the validator reports it
The rule is part of the EN 16931 core. Our checker runs it on every UBL 2.1 invoice and credit note, in the EN 16931, Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 and XRechnung profiles.
Profile: EN 16931, Peppol BIS Billing 3.0, XRechnung 3.x
How we rate it: error
UBL elements: cac:PostalAddress
Where we point in the file: /Invoice/cac:TaxRepresentativeParty
How to fix it
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Related rules
Same business term (BG-12, BG-4, BG-11)
- BR-20 The tax representative address is missing the country code (BT-69)
- BR-18 The seller tax representative (BG-11) needs a name (BT-62) in…
- BR-17 The payee (BG-10) needs its own name in cac:PartyName/cbc:Name and it…
- BR-56 The seller tax representative (BG-11) needs a VAT identifier (BT-63) in…
Same group (BR)
- BR-15 Missing: the amount due for payment (BT-115)
- BR-16 The invoice has no lines at all (BG-25)
- BR-21 Line 1 has no identifier (BT-126)
- BR-22 Line 1 has no quantity (BT-129)
All rules in the group BR (58)
What our tool does about this error
The checker finds BR-19 in your file and shows where it sits in the XML. If you build the invoice in our generator, the finished XML runs through the same checker before the download and will not download while an error remains.
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