Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 · rule

BR-AF-01

Layer en16931·Checked against Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 2026.5

What does BR-AF-01 mean? An Invoice that contains an Invoice line (BG-25), a Document level allowance (BG-20) or a Document level charge (BG-21) where the VAT category code (BT-151, BT-95 or BT-102) is "IGIC" shall contain in the VAT breakdown (BG-23) at least one VAT category code (BT-118) equal with "IGIC".

Why did my invoice fail BR-AF-01?

If any invoice line (BG-25), document level allowance (BG-20) or document level charge (BG-21) uses the VAT category code "IGIC" (code L, the Canary Islands general indirect tax), the VAT breakdown (BG-23) must include at least one entry whose VAT category code (BT-118) is also "IGIC". This keeps the per-line tax categorisation consistent with the document-level VAT summary. In UBL, the breakdown entry is a cac:TaxTotal/cac:TaxSubtotal with cac:TaxCategory/cbc:ID of "L".

Official rule text

An Invoice that contains an Invoice line (BG-25), a Document level allowance (BG-20) or a Document level charge (BG-21) where the VAT category code (BT-151, BT-95 or BT-102) is "IGIC" shall contain in the VAT breakdown (BG-23) at least one VAT category code (BT-118) equal with "IGIC".

Common causes

Lines or allowances/charges use category L but the corresponding TaxSubtotal in the VAT breakdown was omitted
The VAT breakdown entry uses a different category code (e.g. S) than the lines
Software generates the breakdown only from a fixed list of categories and skips L

How do I fix it?

<cac:TaxTotal>
  <cbc:TaxAmount currencyID="EUR">7.00</cbc:TaxAmount>
  <cac:TaxSubtotal>
    <cbc:TaxableAmount currencyID="EUR">100.00</cbc:TaxableAmount>
    <cbc:TaxAmount currencyID="EUR">7.00</cbc:TaxAmount>
    <cac:TaxCategory>
      <cbc:ID>L</cbc:ID>
      <cbc:Percent>7</cbc:Percent>
      <cac:TaxScheme><cbc:ID>VAT</cbc:ID></cac:TaxScheme>
    </cac:TaxCategory>
  </cac:TaxSubtotal>
</cac:TaxTotal>

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