PEPPOL-EN16931-R044

fatalPeppol BIS Billing 3.0profileCIIUBL

Charge on price level is NOT allowed. Only value 'false' allowed.

Why it fails

A charge is stated at price level, where only allowances are permitted.

How to fix it

Set ChargeIndicator to false on Price/AllowanceCharge. A price-level entry can only be the item price discount (BT-147); genuine charges belong at line or document level.

What the validator checks

CII — context —

not(ram:AppliedTradeAllowanceCharge/ram:ActualAmount) or ram:AppliedTradeAllowanceCharge/ram:ChargeIndicator/udt:Indicator = 'false'

UBL — context —

normalize-space(cbc:ChargeIndicator) = 'false'

Related rules

Part of PEPPOL-EN16931 — Peppol BIS Billing 3.0.

Check your own invoice against PEPPOL-EN16931-R044

…or paste the XML instead

Nothing is stored, and the whole invoice is checked, not just this rule. A PDF only works if it is Factur-X / ZUGFeRD — a PDF with the invoice XML inside it.

This is a Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 rule: an invoice can be perfectly valid EN 16931 and still be rejected by it.