E-invoice / Rules / PEPPOL-COMMON-R046

E-invoice rule Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

PEPPOL-COMMON-R046: An Italian Codice Fiscale should have 16

An Italian Codice Fiscale should have 16 characters, or 11 digits with a valid check digit.

Original wording of the rule

Tax Code (Codice Fiscale) must be stated in the correct format

Source of the quotation: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 (OpenPEPPOL, peppol-bis-invoice-3)

How to fix it

1. Open the XML file and find the element cac:Party/cbc:EndpointID.
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:Party
    xmlns:cac="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2"
    xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2">
  <cbc:EndpointID schemeID="0245">2120000001</cbc:EndpointID>
</cac:Party>

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: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

How we rate it: warning

Where we point in the file: /Invoice/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cbc:EndpointID

Related rules

• PEPPOL-COMMON-R044 An Italian IPA code should have 6 alphanumeric characters
• PEPPOL-COMMON-R045 An Italian Codice Fiscale should have 16 characters, or 11 digits
• PEPPOL-COMMON-R047 An Italian Partita IVA should have 11 digits with a valid check digit
• PEPPOL-COMMON-R048 An Italian Partita IVA should have 11 digits with a valid check digit
• PEPPOL-COMMON-R049 A Swedish organisation number needs 10 digits and a valid check digit

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