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E-invoice / Rules / PEPPOL-EN16931-R053

E-invoice rule Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

PEPPOL-EN16931-R053: The document needs exactly one cac:TaxTotal

The document needs exactly one cac:TaxTotal group carrying the VAT breakdown (cac:TaxSubtotal). We found 0.

Original wording of the rule

Only one tax total with tax subtotals MUST be provided.

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

How to fix it

  1. Open the XML file of the e-invoice in a text editor.
  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.

When it is reported

Profile: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

How we rate it: error

UBL elements: cac:TaxTotal, cac:TaxSubtotal

Related rules

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