E-invoice rule Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

PEPPOL-EN16931-R041: If the allowance or charge percentage (cbc:MultiplierFactorNumeric) is given, the base…

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If the allowance or charge percentage (cbc:MultiplierFactorNumeric) is given, the base amount (cbc:BaseAmount) has to be given as well.

What the rule says

Allowance/charge base amount MUST be provided when allowance/charge percentage is provided.

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

Why the validator reports it

The rule belongs to Peppol BIS Billing 3.0. Our checker runs it only when the value of cbc:CustomizationID (BT-24) starts with urn:cen.eu:en16931:2017#compliant#urn:fdc:peppol.eu:2017:poacc:billing:3.0.

Profile: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

How we rate it: error

UBL elements: cbc:MultiplierFactorNumeric, cbc:BaseAmount

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

How to fix it

Open the XML file and find the element cac:AllowanceCharge/cbc:MultiplierFactorNumeric.
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A correct UBL 2.1 snippet

<cac:AllowanceCharge
    xmlns:cac="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2"
    xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2">
  <cbc:MultiplierFactorNumeric>8</cbc:MultiplierFactorNumeric>
</cac:AllowanceCharge>

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Related rules

Same group (PEPPOL-EN16931-R)

PEPPOL-EN16931-R020 The seller electronic address (BT-34, cbc:EndpointID with a schemeID)…
PEPPOL-EN16931-R040 The allowance or charge amount should be the base amount times the percentage…
PEPPOL-EN16931-R042 If the allowance or charge base amount (cbc:BaseAmount) is given, the…
PEPPOL-EN16931-R043 cbc:ChargeIndicator has to be true (a charge) or false (an allowance)

All rules in the group PEPPOL-EN16931-R (28)

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