BR-CO-15
Invoice total amount with VAT (BT-112) = Invoice total amount without VAT (BT-109) + Invoice total VAT amount (BT-110).
- Severity
- Rejects the invoice
- Applies to
- CII, UBL
- Family
- BR-CO
- BT-112
- BT-109
- BT-110
Why it fires
This is the top-level arithmetic check: the total with VAT must equal the total without VAT plus the VAT amount. It usually fires because of rounding applied at the wrong stage, or because a document-level allowance or charge was left out of one side of the sum.
How to fix
Recompute the total with VAT as the total without VAT plus the total VAT amount, rounding once at the end rather than per line.
About the BR-CO family
Calculation and consistency rules. These check that the totals on the invoice add up and agree with the line items and VAT breakdown.
Related rules
A validator reports one code at a time. These check the same fields, so they are the ones most likely to fire on the same invoice.
- BR-13 An Invoice shall have the Invoice total amount without VAT (BT-109).
- BR-14 An Invoice shall have the Invoice total amount with VAT (BT-112).
- BR-CO-13 Invoice total amount without VAT (BT-109) = Σ Invoice line net amount (BT-131) - Sum of allowances on document level (BT-107) + Sum of charges on document level (BT-108).
- BR-CO-14 Invoice total VAT amount (BT-110) = Σ VAT category tax amount (BT-117).
- BR-CO-16 Amount due for payment (BT-115) = Invoice total amount with VAT (BT-112) -Paid amount (BT-113) +Rounding amount (BT-114).
- BR-DEC-12 The allowed maximum number of decimals for the Invoice total amount without VAT (BT-109) is 2.
- BR-DEC-13 The allowed maximum number of decimals for the Invoice total VAT amount (BT-110) is 2.
- BR-DEC-14 The allowed maximum number of decimals for the Invoice total amount with VAT (BT-112) is 2.
Others in the BR-CO family:
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