Fatal — invoice rejected Amounts & totals UAE-specific rule PINT-AE 2026.5

How to fix aligned-ibrp-057 in UAE e-invoicing

What is aligned-ibrp-057?

aligned-ibrp-057 is a fatal validation rule in the UAE's Peppol PINT-AE e-invoicing specification — one of the UAE-specific rules. It is checked against allowances and charges and belongs to the Amounts & totals rule group. An e-invoice that fails aligned-ibrp-057 is rejected by the Accredited Service Provider gateway before it reaches the FTA.

What the official rule says

Either both or neither Allowance base amount (ibt-093) and percentage (ibt-094) MUST be provided.

UAE impact: this is a fatal rule specific to the UAE PINT-AE profile — an invoice failing it is rejected at the Accredited Service Provider gateway before it ever reaches the FTA. A rejected invoice means resubmission delays, and late transmission risks the AED 100-per-invoice penalty under Cabinet Decision No. 106 of 2025.

Where it applies

This rule is checked against allowances and charges of your UBL 2.1 invoice:

cac:AllowanceCharge[cbc:ChargeIndicator = false()][not(ancestor::cac:Price)]

Business terms referenced

Term ID	Field	Other rules
IBT-093	both or neither Allowance base amount	view →
IBT-094	—	view →

Field names are derived automatically from the official rule corpus.

Technical test condition (Schematron)

not(cbc:MultiplierFactorNumeric or cbc:BaseAmount) or (cbc:MultiplierFactorNumeric and cbc:BaseAmount)

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Related rules

aligned-ibrp-032 Each Document level allowance (ibg-20) MUST have a Document level allowance VAT category code (ibt-0 ibr-115-ae Document level allowance tax category code (IBT-095) cannot be 'Standard rate additional VAT'. ibr-131-ae Allowance amount (IBT-092, IBT-136) must equal base amount (IBT-093, IBT-137) * percentage (IBT-094, ibr-168-ae Document level allowances (IBG-20) with Document level allowance VAT category code (IBT-095) as 'Exe aligned-ibrp-058 Either both or neither Charge base amount (ibt-100) and percentage (ibt-101) MUST be provided. ibr-012 An Invoice MUST have the Sum of Invoice line net amount (ibt-106). ibr-013 An Invoice MUST have the Invoice total amount without Tax (ibt-109). ibr-014 An Invoice MUST have the Invoice total amount with Tax (ibt-112).

Rule text sourced from the official OpenPeppol PINT-AE validation artifacts (version 2026.5), refreshed weekly. Explanations are qmetrics' own guidance, not official FTA/MoF text.