`PEPPOL-EN16931-R053`

Peppol BIS Billing 3 · validation rule

Peppol BIS Billing 3Error

There is more than one cac:TaxTotal carrying cac:TaxSubtotal entries (or more than one tax total in the invoice currency). Exactly one TaxTotal with the VAT breakdown in the invoice currency is allowed; merge them.

Field: tax_breakdown (BG-23) / totals.tax (BT-110)
Rule set: Peppol BIS Billing 3
Rule-set version: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 (rules master, Sep 2026) · in force since 2026-09-07 · Rule-set changelog
Who has to fix it: The sender

This is a property of the file you received, so it cannot be corrected on your side without changing the document — ask the supplier to reissue it.

Check your own invoice

Drop the file that failed. We parse it, run the official rule sets against it and list every finding with a fix — 20 invoices per day, no key, nothing stored.

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