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BR-13

EN 16931-1 layer: en16931

Checked against Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 2026.5

What does BR-13 mean? An Invoice shall have the Invoice total amount without VAT (BT-109).

Why did my invoice fail BR-13?

The invoice must state the Invoice total amount without VAT (BT-109), the net total of the whole document after document-level allowances and charges but before VAT. It is the taxable base presented to the buyer and feeds the VAT and payable totals. In UBL it is cac:LegalMonetaryTotal/cbc:TaxExclusiveAmount.

Official rule text

An Invoice shall have the Invoice total amount without VAT (BT-109).

Common causes

• cbc:TaxExclusiveAmount in LegalMonetaryTotal is missing.
• The element is empty or missing its currencyID attribute.
• TaxExclusiveAmount and LineExtensionAmount were confused/swapped or one was omitted.
• Document-level allowances/charges were applied but the resulting total was not written.

How do I fix it?

<cac:LegalMonetaryTotal><cbc:TaxExclusiveAmount currencyID="EUR">1000.00</cbc:TaxExclusiveAmount></cac:LegalMonetaryTotal>

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