E-invoice rule EN 16931

BR-O-13: The document has a VAT breakdown with category O, so every document level allowance has…

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The document has a VAT breakdown with category O, so every document level allowance has to use category O.

What the rule says

[BR-O-13]-An Invoice that contains a VAT breakdown group (BG-23) with a VAT category code (BT-118) "Not subject to VAT" shall not contain Document level allowances (BG-20) where Document level allowance VAT category code (BT-95) is not "Not subject to VAT".

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

Business terms in the wording: BG-23, BT-118, BG-20, BT-95

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

Where we point in the file: /Invoice/cac:AllowanceCharge[1]

How to fix it

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Related rules

Same business term (BT-118, BT-95)

Same group (BR-O)

All rules in the group BR-O (14)

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