Validation rules

BR-13

The invoice total without VAT (BT-109) is missing from the document totals.

Rule

BR-13 — official EN 16931 / XRechnung rule

Severity

error

Business term

BT-109 — Total without VAT

Field in your JSON

invoice.totals.net

Detected by

tier 3 — KoSIT validator (authoritative)

Reachability

Only reachable when validating your own XML — normbill-generated documents cannot trigger it

The serializer always writes BT-109 from its own computed totals.

How to fix it

Add cbc:TaxExclusiveAmount to cac:LegalMonetaryTotal.

Official sources

• XRechnung specification (KoSIT / xeinkauf.de)
• KoSIT validator on GitHub and the XRechnung validator configuration

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