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Rule reference

BR-IC-11 An invoice with an intra-community supply (category K) must state the actual delivery date (BT-72) or an invoicing period (BG-14)

An invoice with an intra-community supply (category K) must state the actual delivery date (BT-72) or an invoicing period (BG-14). The delivery date determines the period in which the supply is reported on your recapitulative statement.

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Business term
BT-72
Severity
fatal

What the library returns

The exact object in result.errors when this rule fires. Generated by running @attestwire/en16931, not transcribed:

TeachingError
{
  "rule": "BR-IC-11",
  "field": "BT-72",
  "severity": "fatal",
  "message": "An invoice with an intra-community supply (category K) must state the actual delivery date (BT-72) or an invoicing period (BG-14). The delivery date determines the period in which the supply is reported on your recapitulative statement.",
  "fix": "Set deliveryDate to the date the goods left, as \"YYYY-MM-DD\".",
  "example": "\"deliveryDate\": \"2026-08-05\"",
  "xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:Delivery/cbc:ActualDeliveryDate",
  "docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/BR-IC-11"
}

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

the shape this field expects
"deliveryDate": "2026-08-05"

The fix

Set deliveryDate to the date the goods left, as "YYYY-MM-DD".

All 58 rules →

Nearby: BR-IC-12 — An invoice with an intra-community supply (category K) must state the deliver-to country code (BT-80); BR-IC-05 — A line uses VAT category K (Intra-community supply), so the invoiced item VAT rate (BT-152) must be 0, but it is 19; BR-O-02 — This invoice uses VAT category O (not subject to VAT), so it must not contain the seller VAT identifier (BT-31), the seller tax representative VAT identifier (BT-63) or the buyer VAT identifier (BT-48).

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