E-invoice / Rules / PEPPOL-EN16931-CL006

E-invoice rule Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

PEPPOL-EN16931-CL006: The value added tax point date code (BT-8)

The value added tax point date code (BT-8) has to be 3, 35 or 432.

Original wording of the rule

Invoice period description code must be according to UNCL 2005 D.16B.

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:InvoicePeriod/cbc:DescriptionCode.
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:InvoicePeriod
    xmlns:cac="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2"
    xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2">
  <cbc:DescriptionCode>3</cbc:DescriptionCode>
</cac:InvoicePeriod>

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: error

Where we point in the file: /Invoice/cac:InvoicePeriod/cbc:DescriptionCode

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