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IT-R-001: BT-32 (Seller tax registration identifier) - For Italian suppliers BT-32…

fatal UBL

What this error means and how to fix it

A national rule of Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 for the country in the rule prefix (for example NO, DK, IT, SE, GR): it usually applies when the seller is in that country. This is an error: the invoice is rejected until it is fixed.

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This error needs information only you have, so it is not repaired automatically. The free check shows every finding in the file with its location; if other errors in the same file are in the automatic set (totals, VAT breakdown, rounding, element order), the result page offers the corrected file for 9 €.

Rule text

[IT-R-001]-BT-32 (Seller tax registration identifier) - For Italian suppliers BT-32 minimum length 11 and maximum length shall be 16. Per i fornitori italiani il BT-32 deve avere una lunghezza tra 11 e 16 caratteri
Where the rule is checked (XPath context and test)
SyntaxSeverityContext (XPath)Test (XPath)
Peppol-UBLfatalcac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party[$supplierCountry = 'IT']/cac:PartyTaxScheme[normalize-space(cac:TaxScheme/cbc:ID) != 'VAT']matches(normalize-space(cbc:CompanyID),'^[A-Z0-9]{11,16}$')

Business terms referenced

BT-32

Related rules

BR-AE-02, BR-AE-03, BR-AE-04, BR-E-02, BR-E-03, BR-E-04, BR-IG-02, BR-IG-03, BR-IG-04, BR-IP-02, BR-IP-03, BR-IP-04

Source: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 Schematron, UBL (OpenPeppol, docs.peppol.eu validation artefacts 3.0.21).

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