BR-CO-9 in your own invoice? Upload the file and find every error in seconds.
What does BR-CO-9 mean?
The Seller VAT identifier (BT-31), the Seller tax representative VAT identifier (BT-63) and the Buyer VAT identifier (BT-48) shall have a prefix in accordance with ISO code ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 by which the country of issue may be identified. Nevertheless, Greece may use the prefix 'EL'. This is a consistency rule of EN 16931: the amounts must add up, otherwise the invoice does not hold together.
Common causes of BR-CO-9
- The sum or consistency condition does not add up.
- A partial amount or a line was left out of the total.
- Rounding was not carried out cleanly to 2 decimal places.
How to fix BR-CO-9
- Find the faulty spot in the XML. Open the XML of the invoice and go to field BT-31 along this XPath:
//ram:SellerTradeParty/ram:SpecifiedTaxRegistration/ram:ID[@schemeID='VA'] - Apply the fix. The Seller VAT identifier (BT-31) must start with the country prefix (ISO 3166-1), for example 'DE123456789'.
- Validate again. Save the file and validate it again to check that BR-CO-9 is no longer reported.
Concrete fix
The Seller VAT identifier (BT-31) must start with the country prefix (ISO 3166-1), for example 'DE123456789'.
XPath
//ram:SellerTradeParty/ram:SpecifiedTaxRegistration/ram:ID[@schemeID='VA']Frequent questions about BR-CO-9
How do I fix BR-CO-9?
The Seller VAT identifier (BT-31) must start with the country prefix (ISO 3166-1), for example 'DE123456789'.
Related error codes
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