CORRECTIVE_BAD_DEBT_BASE_TOO_LOW

When it happens

A bad-debt corrective (R3) on an operation with a taxable base of 50 € or less, without recipient_is_business. The law allows that reduction only when the recipient acted as a business or professional.

How to fix it

If the recipient acted as a business or professional, send recipient_is_business: true. Otherwise the reduction does not apply.

Retry

Not as is: the same request fails the same way. Fix the cause described above, then send the request again, under a new Idempotency-Key if the body changed.

Returned by

The operations where this code is most likely. The list is not exhaustive.

• POST /v1/companies/{company_id}/invoices/{invoice_id}/corrective

Rules that cite this code

• COR-020 A bad-debt corrective waits six months and needs a business recipient under 50 €

Example response

When this error occurs, the API answers 422 Unprocessable Content with a JSON body of this shape:

{
  "type": "https://docs.beel.es/errors/CORRECTIVE_BAD_DEBT_BASE_TOO_LOW",
  "title": "CORRECTIVE_BAD_DEBT_BASE_TOO_LOW",
  "detail": "A bad-debt corrective (R3) is not possible for an operation with a base of €‹value› to a consumer: the base must exceed €50. If the recipient acted as a business or professional, say so with recipient_is_business.",
  "instance": "/v1/<resource>",
  "errors": [],
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "CORRECTIVE_BAD_DEBT_BASE_TOO_LOW",
    "message": "A bad-debt corrective (R3) is not possible for an operation with a base of €‹value› to a consumer: the base must exceed €50. If the recipient acted as a business or professional, say so with recipient_is_business.",
    "details": {}
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2026-05-21T10:00:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}

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Message

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