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FX-SCH-A-000995: Payee address has repeated region fields

In short

Error: fails the selected checks.

FX-SCH-A-000995 means the payee's postal address in your payment terms contains more than one ram:CountrySubDivisionName element. Keep one region, state or county value, or omit this optional field.

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What it means

For each ram:PostalTradeAddress under ram:SpecifiedTradePaymentTerms/ram:PayeeTradeParty, this rule allows zero or one ram:CountrySubDivisionName element. It checks the number of elements, not whether a region name is correct.

Why it matters

The Extended profile provides one optional region-name field in this address, rather than a list.

How to fix it

Check the region, state or county in the payee's postal address. In ram:SpecifiedTradePaymentTerms/ram:PayeeTradeParty/ram:PostalTradeAddress, remove repeated ram:CountrySubDivisionName elements and retain the appropriate value. If you do not need a region, omit the element. Export the corrected file and check it again.

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The rule as published

Element 'ram:CountrySubDivisionName' may occur at maximum 1 times.

Where this rule applies

Rule set Version
Factur-X 1.09 EXTENDED 1.0.9-2
ZUGFeRD 2.5 EXTENDED 2.5.2
Rule text from phive-rules 4.6.4.

Check your file

Drop your e-invoice to see whether FX-SCH-A-000995 still fails, and which other rules do.

Updated 6 November 2026