# BR-14

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

Checked against Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 2026.5

Canonical: https://einvoicecheck.eu/rules/br-14

## Official rule text

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.

## 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>
```