BR-19 The invoice carries a seller tax representative group (BG-11), so it must carry the representative's postal address (BG-12)
The invoice carries a seller tax representative group (BG-11), so it must carry the representative's postal address (BG-12). The address is not contact decoration: it is the evidence of *where* the representative is established, and therefore which tax administration the representation is effective in. A representative with no address cannot be shown to be established in the member state whose VAT is being accounted for.
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- Business term
BG-12- 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-19",
"field": "BG-12",
"severity": "fatal",
"message": "The invoice carries a seller tax representative group (BG-11), so it must carry the representative's postal address (BG-12). The address is not contact decoration: it is the evidence of *where* the representative is established, and therefore which tax administration the representation is effective in. A representative with no address cannot be shown to be established in the member state whose VAT is being accounted for.",
"fix": "Set taxRepresentative.address with at least city, postalCode and countryCode — the same PostalAddress shape the seller and buyer use.",
"example": "\"taxRepresentative\": { \"name\": \"Fiscal Rep France SARL\", \"vatId\": \"FR12345678901\", \"address\": { \"city\": \"Lyon\", \"postalCode\": \"69001\", \"countryCode\": \"FR\" } }",
"xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:TaxRepresentativeParty/cac:PostalAddress",
"docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/BR-19"
}
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", "address": { "city": "Lyon", "postalCode": "69001", "countryCode": "FR" } }The fix
Set taxRepresentative.address with at least city, postalCode and countryCode — the same PostalAddress shape the seller and buyer use.