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BR-14

EN 16931-1 layer: en16931

Checked against Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 2026.5

What does BR-14 mean? An Invoice shall have the Invoice total amount with VAT (BT-112).

Why did my invoice fail BR-14?

Every invoice must carry the Invoice total amount with VAT (BT-112), i.e. the grand total including tax that the buyer sees before deducting any prepaid amounts. This is the headline gross figure and must equal the Invoice total without VAT (BT-109) plus the Invoice total VAT amount (BT-110). It is mandatory so every EN 16931 document states a single, unambiguous tax-inclusive total.

Official rule text

An Invoice shall have the Invoice total amount with VAT (BT-112).

Common causes

• The cbc:TaxInclusiveAmount element inside cac:LegalMonetaryTotal is missing entirely.
• The generator only produced the tax-exclusive total (BT-109) and forgot the gross total.
• TaxInclusiveAmount was emitted but with an empty value or without the required currencyID attribute, so it is treated as absent.

How do I fix it?

<cac:LegalMonetaryTotal>
  <cbc:TaxExclusiveAmount currencyID="EUR">100.00</cbc:TaxExclusiveAmount>
  <cbc:TaxInclusiveAmount currencyID="EUR">122.00</cbc:TaxInclusiveAmount>
</cac:LegalMonetaryTotal>

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