Counterfoil rule note

BR-DEC-13

Quoted from a public specification. This page is not a validator, and it is not tax, legal, or accounting advice.

Country
EU
Syntax
UBL
Severity
fatal
Last verified
2026-10-18

Official statement

The allowed maximum number of decimals for the Invoice total VAT amount (BT-110) is 2.

Source: https://docs.peppol.eu/poacc/billing/3.0/rules/ubl-tc434/BR-DEC-13/

Peppol BIS Billing 3.0, May 2026 release, EN 16931 model bound to UBL

Severity note: fatal, from the Flag column of the Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 UBL rules index retrieved 2026-10-18.

Plain-language reading

The Invoice total VAT amount (BT-110) may have at most 2 decimals. The statement says "allowed maximum number of decimals" and "is 2", and it ends with a period. It does not say shall. The context is the invoice or the credit note, with spaces around the bar. This is a decimal limit, not the BR-CO-14 sum. The published test reads cbc:TaxAmount whose currencyID equals the document currency code, with spaces around =. It writes <=2 with no space before <= and no space after the comma. The absent branch is not(...) and does not call exists. The present branch does not call exists either.

What to change

Send the Invoice total VAT amount (BT-110) in the document currency with at most 2 digits after the decimal point.

Illustration

Illustration of the condition in the official statement. Not an example published by the source.

Fails the stated condition. The invoice total VAT amount in the document currency has 3 digits after the decimal point.

Passes the stated condition. That amount has 2 digits after the decimal point.

Published context and test

Copied from the source. Not reimplemented on this page.

/ubl:Invoice | /cn:CreditNote
(//cac:TaxTotal/cbc:TaxAmount[@currencyID = cbc:DocumentCurrencyCode] and (string-length(substring-after(//cac:TaxTotal/cbc:TaxAmount[@currencyID = cbc:DocumentCurrencyCode],'.'))<=2)) or (not(//cac:TaxTotal/cbc:TaxAmount[@currencyID = cbc:DocumentCurrencyCode]))

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