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BR-CO-14BT-110
blocked

The total VAT amount does not match the breakdown

The invoice total VAT amount (BT-110) must equal the sum of the VAT category tax amounts (BT-117).

A financial field: the expected value is computed and offered, never written into the document — the correction is the issuer's to make. Test your invoice to find out whether it is affected.

The message your validator prints

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[BR-CO-14]-Invoice total VAT amount (BT-110) = Σ VAT category tax amount (BT-117).

Quoted from schematron-cen 1.3.16, licensed under EUPL-1.2.

Common searches around this code

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BR-CO-14 The total VAT amount does not match the breakdownBR-CO-14 CEN EN 16931 SchematronBR-CO-14 BT-110[BR-CO-14]-Invoice total VAT amount (BT-110) = Σ VAT category tax amount (BT-117).BR-CO-14 correction

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Why this error happens

On a single-rate invoice the gap is almost always a rounding one: VAT computed on the total does not land on the sum of the VAT computed line by line. On a multi-rate invoice it is more often a category left out of the breakdown.

How to fix it

Fix the calculation in the system that produced the invoice, not in the file. Factlint computes the expected value and returns it in `suggested_value`, but never writes the field.

Reason it is blocked:

financial_field_policy

XML correction example

BEFORE (invalid)
<ram:TaxTotalAmount>206.50</ram:TaxTotalAmount>  <!-- ventilation : 206.51 -->
AFTER (compliant)
<ram:TaxTotalAmount>206.51</ram:TaxTotalAmount>