Validation rules
BR-CO-17
A VAT breakdown's tax amount (BT-117) does not equal its taxable amount (BT-116) multiplied by the category rate (BT-119), allowing for rounding.
- Rule
BR-CO-17— official EN 16931 / XRechnung rule- Severity
- error
- Business term
BT-117— VAT category tax amount- Field in your JSON
invoice.lines- Detected by
- tier 3 — KoSIT validator (authoritative)
- Reachability
- Only reachable when validating your own XML — normbill-generated documents cannot trigger it
The engine computes every breakdown's tax amount exactly this way (calc/totals.ts, half-up rounding).
How to fix it
Recompute the subtotal's cbc:TaxAmount as taxable × rate / 100, rounded to 2 decimals.
BR-CO-17 auf Deutsch — was bedeutet der Fehler?
Der Steuerbetrag einer Umsatzsteueraufschlüsselung (BT-117) entspricht nicht Steuerbasisbetrag (BT-116) × Steuersatz (BT-119), unter Berücksichtigung der Rundung.
So beheben Sie den Fehler
Berechnen Sie cbc:TaxAmount des Subtotals als Basis × Satz / 100, kaufmännisch auf 2 Nachkommastellen gerundet.
Official sources
- XRechnung specification (KoSIT / xeinkauf.de)
- KoSIT validator on GitHub and the XRechnung validator configuration
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.