Validation rules
BR-DE-14
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.
Official sources
- XRechnung specification (KoSIT / xeinkauf.de)
- KoSIT validator on GitHub and the XRechnung validator configuration
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