Validation rules

BR-CO-14 — EN 16931 rule

Supplied totals.tax does not match the computed VAT breakdown.

Rule: BR-CO-14 — official EN 16931 / XRechnung rule
Severity: error
Business term: BT-110 — Total VAT amount
Field in your JSON: invoice.totals.tax

How to fix it

Remove invoice.totals to let normbill compute it, or fix the amount.

BR-CO-14 auf Deutsch — was bedeutet der Fehler?

Der angegebene Umsatzsteuerbetrag (totals.tax, BT-110) passt nicht zur berechneten Steueraufschlüsselung.

So beheben Sie den Fehler

Lassen Sie invoice.totals weg, damit normbill die Summen exakt berechnet — oder korrigieren Sie den Betrag.

Related rules

BR-DEC-13 — totals.tax (BT-110) has more than 2 decimal places — EN 16931 allows at most 2.
BR-CO-13 — Supplied totals.net does not equal the sum of line nets minus document allowances plus document charges.
BR-CO-15 — Supplied totals.gross does not equal net + tax.
BR-CO-16 — The amount due (BT-115) must equal the invoice total with VAT (BT-112) minus the paid amount (BT-113), plus…
BR-CO-12 — The sum of document-level charges (BT-108) does not equal the sum of the individual charge amounts (BT-99).
BR-CO-11 — The sum of document-level allowances (BT-107) does not equal the sum of the individual allowance amounts…

Official sources

Every 422 from the API lists the rule id, the path in your request JSON, a plain-language message and a suggested fix — see the docs overview for the report format.

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