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BR-CO-15BT-112
blocked

The amount due including VAT does not match the net total plus VAT

The total amount including VAT (BT-112) must be exactly the net total (BT-109) plus the total VAT amount (BT-110).

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

Copied verbatim from the sealed artefact: this is the exact sentence the check prints when this rule fails.

[BR-CO-15]-Invoice total amount with VAT (BT-112) = Invoice total amount without VAT (BT-109) + Invoice total VAT amount (BT-110).

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

Common searches around this code

These phrases mirror what an integrator searches for: code, syntax, rule, business field and correction.

BR-CO-15 The amount due including VAT does not match the net total plus VATBR-CO-15 CEN EN 16931 SchematronBR-CO-15 BT-112[BR-CO-15]-Invoice total amount with VAT (BT-112) = Invoice total amount without VAT (BT-109) + Invoice total VAT amount (BT-110).BR-CO-15 correction

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Why this error happens

This is the most frequent arithmetic inconsistency, and it almost always comes from rounding applied line by line instead of on the total, or from an invoice-level discount left out of one of the two terms. A one-cent gap is enough to trigger the check.

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:GrandTotalAmount>1195.00</ram:GrandTotalAmount>
AFTER (compliant)
<ram:GrandTotalAmount>1200.00</ram:GrandTotalAmount>