Validation rules

BR-DE-14 — XRechnung rule

A VAT breakdown is missing its category rate (BT-119) — XRechnung requires cbc:Percent in every tax subtotal, including category O (where it is 0).

Rule: BR-DE-14 — official EN 16931 / XRechnung rule
Severity: error
Business term: BT-119
Detected by: tier 3 — KoSIT validator (authoritative)
Reachability: Only reachable when validating your own XML — normbill-generated documents cannot trigger it

normbill writes the rate in every breakdown it generates — including Percent 0 for category O, which plain EN 16931 leaves optional but XRechnung mandates.

How to fix it

Add cbc:Percent to every cac:TaxSubtotal/cac:TaxCategory.

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

In einer Umsatzsteueraufschlüsselung fehlt der Steuersatz (BT-119) — die XRechnung verlangt cbc:Percent in jedem TaxSubtotal, auch bei Kategorie O (dort mit dem Wert 0).

So beheben Sie den Fehler

Ergänzen Sie cbc:Percent in jeder cac:TaxSubtotal/cac:TaxCategory.

Related rules

BR-48 — A VAT breakdown (BG-23) has no VAT category rate (BT-119); only category O (not subject to VAT) may omit it.
BR-DE-15 — Buyer reference (BT-10) is missing. XRechnung requires it; public-sector buyers in Germany use their…
BR-DE-16 — A seller VAT identifier (BT-31), tax registration number (BT-32) or seller tax representative (BG-11) is…
BR-DE-11 — A deliver-to address (BG-15) is present but its post code (BT-78) is missing — XRechnung requires it.
BR-DE-17 — This invoice type code is not recommended in XRechnung.
BR-DE-10 — A deliver-to address (BG-15) is present but its city (BT-77) is missing — XRechnung requires it.

Official sources

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