Only a VAT identifier for specified business partners

Error BR-FXEXT-03 Factur-X

Only a VAT registration ID may be provided for the following business partners: the line level Ship-To (BT-X-66), the line level Ultimate-Ship-To (BT-X-84), the Sales-Agent (BT-X-340), the Buyer-Tax-Representative (BT-X-367), the Product-Enduser (BT-X-144), the Buyer-Agent (BT-X-411), the document level Ship-To (BT-X-161), the document level Ultimate-Ship-To (BT-X-180), the Ship-From (BT-X-199), the Invoicer (BT-X-223), the Invoicee (BT-X-242), the document level Payee (BT-X-257), the Payer (BT-X-481), or the payment-term-specific Payee (BT-X-509).

Mandatory rule: As long as it is violated, the invoice is invalid and will be rejected by validators.
What is wrong

For one of the specified business partners, ram:SpecifiedTaxRegistration/ram:ID has a schemeID value other than VA. The rule allows only the identifier code VA for these business partners.

What the rule means

The code VA identifies a VAT identifier. This rule restricts the tax registration identifier of these business partners to that identifier code.

Affected fields BT-X-66 BT-X-84 BT-X-340 BT-X-367 BT-X-144 BT-X-411 BT-X-161 BT-X-180 BT-X-199 BT-X-223 BT-X-242 BT-X-257 BT-X-481 BT-X-509
Please use only a VAT identifier for these business partners.

An identifier code other than VA is entered for one of the specified business partners. You can adjust the entry so that it is identified as a VAT identifier.

What to do
  1. Check the tax registration identifier of the affected business partner.
  2. Use AddInvoiceeTaxRegistration(...) for the invoicee or AddShipToTaxRegistration(...) for the ship-to party.
  3. Generate the invoice again and validate it again.
What it looks like
✗ Triggers the message 
<ram:SpecifiedTaxRegistration>
  <ram:ID schemeID="FC">123456</ram:ID>
</ram:SpecifiedTaxRegistration>
✓ Correct 
<ram:SpecifiedTaxRegistration>
  <ram:ID schemeID="VA">123456</ram:ID>
</ram:SpecifiedTaxRegistration>
Check in FactoorSharp
  • FacturXInvoice.AddInvoiceeTaxRegistration(no, schemeID) (BT-X-242-00)
  • FacturXInvoice.AddShipToTaxRegistration(no, schemeID) (BT-X-66-00)
Technical details

For the applicable ram:ID, the test checks only whether @schemeID equals VA. The XPath context excludes IDs under ram:SellerTradeParty.

Where the rule applies

The rule applies to ram:SpecifiedTaxRegistration/ram:ID for the specified business partners, excluding the seller.

Context (rule/@context)
//ram:SpecifiedTaxRegistration/ram:ID[not(ancestor::ram:SellerTradeParty)]
Test expression (assert/@test)
@schemeID='VA'