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BR-CO-04 – Invoice line without VAT category

What the rule says

Each Invoice line (BG-25) shall be categorized with an Invoiced item VAT category code (BT-151).

How to fix it

Every line needs a VAT category (S, Z, E, AE, K, G, O, L, M) in cac:Item/cac:ClassifiedTaxCategory.

UBL: cac:InvoiceLine/cac:Item/cac:ClassifiedTaxCategory/cbc:ID

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Where it is checked in the XML

Context: cac:InvoiceLine | cac:CreditNoteLine

Test (XPath):

(cac:Item/cac:ClassifiedTaxCategory[cac:TaxScheme/(normalize-space(upper-case(cbc:ID))='VAT')]/cbc:ID)

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• BR-CO-05 Document level allowance reason code (BT-98) and Document level allowance reason (BT-97)…
• BR-CO-06 Document level charge reason code (BT-105) and Document level charge reason (BT-104)…
• BR-CO-07 Invoice line allowance reason code (BT-140) and Invoice line allowance reason (BT-139)…
• BR-CO-08 Invoice line charge reason code (BT-145) and Invoice line charge reason (BT-144) shall…
• BR-CO-09 VAT ID without country prefix
• BR-CO-10 Sum of line amounts is wrong
• BR-CO-11 Sum of allowances on document level (BT-107) = Σ Document level allowance amount (BT-92)
• BR-CO-12 Sum of charges on document level (BT-108) = Σ Document level charge amount (BT-99)
• BR-CO-13 Total without VAT is wrong
• BR-CO-14 Total VAT is wrong
• BR-CO-15 Total with VAT is wrong