Your invoice was rejected by ANAF. What it means and what to fix

A rejection means the file reached ANAF but failed validation — so the invoice is NOT considered transmitted. It is not a fine and it does not fix itself: you correct the cause and upload a new file.

The rejection message has three parts. Only one of them tells you what to do.

How to read the ANAF message

The answer arrives in a form that looks alarming but is simple:

tipAssert=E; codEroare=ERRIdentif; textEroare=CUI cumparator incorect

tipAssert — severity. E means error: it stops the transmission.

codEroare — the internal code of the broken rule. Useful only when calling ANAF.

textEroare — the plain-language explanation. This is the only part that tells you what to fix.

ANAF sometimes packs several problems into one message, separated by „;" or by line breaks. Do not stop at the first one: fixing only one means the next attempt comes back with the rest.

The most frequent causes, and what to fix

The Bucharest address is missing the sector

textEroare=... RO-B ... sector ...

The Romanian e-invoicing specification requires Bucharest addresses to carry the city as "Sector 1"…"Sector 6", not "București". It is the single most common rejection for companies in the capital.

Fix: set the city to "Sector 3" (or whichever), on both your company details and the client's.

The buyer's tax ID is invalid

codEroare=ERRIdentif; textEroare=CUI cumparator incorect

Either the code is mistyped, or the RO prefix is missing for a VAT-registered client, or it carries stray spaces. ANAF checks the control digit, so one wrong digit stops the invoice.

Fix: take the exact code from the public registry — you can check it free with our tax ID lookup.

The buyer's address is missing or incomplete

textEroare=... adresa cumparator ... obligatoriu

An electronic invoice is not complete without both parties' addresses — a requirement of the European standard behind e-invoicing, not an ANAF formality.

Fix: fill in the buyer's street, city and county.

The buyer's name is missing

textEroare=... denumire cumparator ... lipsa

Usually seen on invoices imported from another program, where the name stayed in a column that was not mapped.

Fix: enter the client's exact registered name.

Totals or VAT do not add up

textEroare=... total ... nu corespunde ...

The standard checks the arithmetic: line amounts must sum to the total, and VAT must follow from the line rates. The usual cause is rounding — a total typed rather than computed.

Fix: check the VAT rate on each line and let the total be computed.

What to do after fixing

Fix it where the data lives, not on the invoice: otherwise the next invoice goes out with the same mistake.
Generate the file again. The rejected one cannot be edited — ANAF expects a new transmission.
Upload it again and watch the response. If the message held several problems and you fixed one, the second rejection shows the rest.
Keep the receipt from the successful transmission. That is the proof the invoice arrived — not the email to the client.

What a rejection is not: not a fine, not an audit. Most rejections are an address written in a different form than the specification wants. But it does mean the invoice is not transmitted — and the obligation is to transmit it, not to try.

Where this list comes from

From the causes our application recognises and translates into plain language when an invoice comes back from ANAF — built on real invoices, really rejected. The message shape in the examples is one measured on a rejected invoice, not invented for illustration.

It is not a complete list of every validation rule: the specification has hundreds, and most are never met in practice.

If your message is not on the list

Read textEroare and look for the field name inside it: "cumparator", "furnizor", "linie", "total". The field tells you where to look, even when the rest is cryptic.

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