BR-IC-12: In an Invoice with a VAT breakdown (BG-23) where the VAT category code (BT-118) is…

The rule applies when a VAT breakdown (BG-23) has VAT category code BT-118 = K ("Intra-community supply") under VAT scheme VAT. In UBL, the invoice or credit note must then have a non-blank Deliver to country code BT-80 in cac:Delivery/cac:DeliveryLocation/cac:Address/cac:Country/cbc:IdentificationCode; the test enforces this as a string length greater than 1. If no such K VAT category exists, the rule passes. In CII, the test only requires that ram:ShipToTradeParty/ram:PostalTradeAddress/ram:CountryID is present; it does not check for a non-empty value, so the non-blank requirement from the message is not fully enforced by the shown CII test. Severity is fatal, so documents failing the stated test are rejected.

For UBL, ensure cac:Delivery/cac:DeliveryLocation/cac:Address/cac:Country/cbc:IdentificationCode contains a country code value longer than one character, or correct the VAT category K if it should not be intra-community supply. For CII, ensure ram:ShipToTradeParty/ram:PostalTradeAddress/ram:CountryID is present and, to meet the intended non-blank rule, give it a non-empty country code value; if the transaction is not intra-community supply, adjust ram:CategoryCode/ram:TypeCode accordingly.