You must include the elements and values described in this topic.

More general information about Allowances is provided in the Allowances topic. More information about Tax Categories and Schemes is provided in the Tax Categories and Schemes topic.

Elements

Element	Description
`Invoice/AllowanceCharge/AllowanceChargeReasonCode`	Specify the reason code using one of the UNTDID 5189 values.
`Invoice/AllowanceCharge/TaxCategery/ID`	Specify the Tax Category using a code from the UNTDID 5305 list.
`Invoice/AllowanceCharge/TaxCategery/TaxScheme/ID`	Specify `VAT`.

Restrictions

You must use a value from the UNTDID 5189 list here in the AllowanceChargeReasonCode element.
You must specify the Tax Category code in the TaxCategory/ID element.
You must use a value from the UNTDID 5305 list here in the TaxCategory/ID element.
You must specify VAT in the TaxCategory/TaxScheme/ID element.
You may only specify a single Tax Category.

Example

<Invoice>
    <!-- code omitted for clarity -->
    <cac:AllowanceCharge>
        <cbc:ChargeIndicator>false</cbc:ChargeIndicator> 
        <cbc:AllowanceChargeReasonCode>65</cbc:AllowanceChargeReasonCode>
        <cbc:AllowanceChargeReason>Production error discount</cbc:AllowanceChargeReason>
        <cbc:Amount currencyID="EUR">300</cbc:Amount>
        <cac:TaxCategory>
            <cbc:ID>S</cbc:ID>
            <cbc:Percent>25</cbc:Percent>
            <cac:TaxScheme>
                <cbc:ID>VAT</cbc:ID>
            </cac:TaxScheme>
        </cac:TaxCategory>
        </cac:AllowanceCharge>
    <!-- code omitted for clarity -->
</Invoice>