BR-07 An invoice must contain the buyer name (BT-44)
An invoice must contain the buyer name (BT-44). Without it the recipient cannot prove the invoice was addressed to them, which is a condition of deducting the input VAT.
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- Business term
BT-44- Severity
fatal
What the library returns
The exact object in result.errors when this rule fires.
Generated by running @attestwire/en16931, not transcribed:
{
"rule": "BR-07",
"field": "BT-44",
"severity": "fatal",
"message": "An invoice must contain the buyer name (BT-44). Without it the recipient cannot prove the invoice was addressed to them, which is a condition of deducting the input VAT.",
"fix": "Set buyer.name to the legal name of the organisation being billed, exactly as they gave it to you.",
"example": "\"buyer\": { \"name\": \"Kunde GmbH\" }",
"xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:AccountingCustomerParty/cac:Party/cac:PartyName/cbc:Name",
"docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/BR-07"
}
xpath locates the element in the generated UBL document,
which is where a KoSIT or Peppol validator will report the same problem.
A passing value
"buyer": { "name": "Kunde GmbH" }The fix
Set buyer.name to the legal name of the organisation being billed, exactly as they gave it to you.