BR-18 The invoice carries a seller tax representative group (BG-11), so it must carry the tax representative's name (BT-62)
The invoice carries a seller tax representative group (BG-11), so it must carry the tax representative's name (BT-62). A fiscal representative is the party that answers to the tax authority for this supply in a member state where the seller is not established — the name is what makes that liability attach to somebody. An unnamed representative leaves the VAT with nobody to account for it, which is the situation the whole group exists to prevent.
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- Business term
BT-62- 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-18",
"field": "BT-62",
"severity": "fatal",
"message": "The invoice carries a seller tax representative group (BG-11), so it must carry the tax representative's name (BT-62). A fiscal representative is the party that answers to the tax authority for this supply in a member state where the seller is not established — the name is what makes that liability attach to somebody. An unnamed representative leaves the VAT with nobody to account for it, which is the situation the whole group exists to prevent.",
"fix": "Set taxRepresentative.name to the legal name of the fiscal representative, or remove the taxRepresentative object if the seller is registered directly.",
"example": "\"taxRepresentative\": { \"name\": \"Fiscal Rep France SARL\", \"vatId\": \"FR12345678901\" }",
"xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:TaxRepresentativeParty/cac:PartyName/cbc:Name",
"docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/BR-18"
}
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
"taxRepresentative": { "name": "Fiscal Rep France SARL", "vatId": "FR12345678901" }The fix
Set taxRepresentative.name to the legal name of the fiscal representative, or remove the taxRepresentative object if the seller is registered directly.