BR-47 The VAT breakdown group for category undefined has no VAT category code (BT-118)
The VAT breakdown group for category undefined has no VAT category code (BT-118). Each VAT breakdown (BG-23) shall be defined through one — the code is what selects the rule family the group is judged by, so a group without it is uninterpretable.
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- Business term
BT-118- 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-47",
"field": "BT-118",
"severity": "fatal",
"message": "The VAT breakdown group for category undefined has no VAT category code (BT-118). Each VAT breakdown (BG-23) shall be defined through one — the code is what selects the rule family the group is judged by, so a group without it is uninterpretable.",
"fix": "The VAT breakdown is computed from your lines, so this cannot arise from your input — it indicates a defect in this library's arithmetic. Please report it with the invoice payload.",
"xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:TaxTotal/cac:TaxSubtotal[2]/cac:TaxCategory/cbc:ID",
"docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/BR-47"
}
xpath locates the element in the generated UBL document,
which is where a KoSIT or Peppol validator will report the same problem.
The fix
The VAT breakdown is computed from your lines, so this cannot arise from your input — it indicates a defect in this library's arithmetic. Please report it with the invoice payload.