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BR-13 Invoice total amount without VAT is required

An invoice shall have the Invoice total amount without VAT (BT-109), the net payable amount before VAT is added.

This is an EN 16931 core rule. BT-109 is the invoice total without VAT: BT-106 minus document level allowances (BT-107) plus document level charges (BT-108), as checked by BR-CO-13. It links the line totals to the VAT breakdown (BG-23). The error appears when an export writes only the line total and the total with VAT, for example because the source document shows no net subtotal. In CII, BT-109 is ram:TaxBasisTotalAmount.

Solution

Add cac:LegalMonetaryTotal/cbc:TaxExclusiveAmount equal to BT-106 minus document allowances plus document charges.

Quick actions

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Valid Examples

BT-109 = 1000.00 — net total before VAT

Invalid Examples

cac:LegalMonetaryTotal has no cbc:TaxExclusiveAmount element

Code Examples

Valid XML

<cac:LegalMonetaryTotal>
  <cbc:LineExtensionAmount currencyID="EUR">1000.00</cbc:LineExtensionAmount>
  <cbc:TaxExclusiveAmount currencyID="EUR">1000.00</cbc:TaxExclusiveAmount>
  <cbc:TaxInclusiveAmount currencyID="EUR">1190.00</cbc:TaxInclusiveAmount>
</cac:LegalMonetaryTotal>

Invalid XML

<cac:LegalMonetaryTotal>
  <cbc:LineExtensionAmount currencyID="EUR">1000.00</cbc:LineExtensionAmount>
  <cbc:TaxInclusiveAmount currencyID="EUR">1190.00</cbc:TaxInclusiveAmount>
</cac:LegalMonetaryTotal>