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PEPPOL-EN16931-R042 The document level charge states a base amount of 1000 but no percentage

The document level charge states a base amount of 1000 but no percentage. Peppol requires the pair to travel together in both directions: a base amount with no percentage names a figure the document then does nothing with, which reads as an incomplete edit rather than a statement. If the adjustment is a flat sum, it has no base — the amount is the whole of it. This is a Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 profile rule: it applies because profile is "peppol-bis-3". It does not apply to the en16931, xrechnung-ubl or xrechnung-cii profiles, whose validators will accept the same document.

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Business term
BT-100 / BT-101
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": "PEPPOL-EN16931-R042",
  "field": [
    "BT-100",
    "BT-101"
  ],
  "severity": "fatal",
  "message": "The document level charge states a base amount of 1000 but no percentage. Peppol requires the pair to travel together in both directions: a base amount with no percentage names a figure the document then does nothing with, which reads as an incomplete edit rather than a statement. If the adjustment is a flat sum, it has no base — the amount is the whole of it. This is a Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 profile rule: it applies because profile is \"peppol-bis-3\". It does not apply to the en16931, xrechnung-ubl or xrechnung-cii profiles, whose validators will accept the same document.",
  "fix": "Set charges[0].percentage to the rate applied to the base, or drop charges[0].baseAmount if the adjustment is a flat amount rather than a proportion.",
  "example": "{ \"amount\": 50.00, \"baseAmount\": 1000.00, \"percentage\": 5, \"reason\": \"Volume discount\" }",
  "xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:AllowanceCharge[1]/cbc:MultiplierFactorNumeric",
  "docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/PEPPOL-EN16931-R042"
}

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
{ "amount": 50.00, "baseAmount": 1000.00, "percentage": 5, "reason": "Volume discount" }

The fix

Set charges[0].percentage to the rate applied to the base, or drop charges[0].baseAmount if the adjustment is a flat amount rather than a proportion.

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Nearby: PEPPOL-EN16931-R046 — A line states an item gross price (BT-148) of 100 and an item price discount (BT-147) of 10, so the item net price (BT-146) must be 90 — but it is 91; PEPPOL-EN16931-R041 — The document level allowance states a percentage of 5% but no base amount; PEPPOL-EN16931-R055 — The invoice total VAT amount (BT-110) is 285.00 EUR and the same total in the VAT accounting currency (BT-111) is -3200.00 SEK.

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