# InvoiceUnit
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An invoice unit is a set of mutually exclusive accounts that correspond to your business entity. Invoice units allow you separate Amazon Web Services account costs and configures your invoice for each business entity going forward. 

## Contents
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 ** Description **   <a name="awscostmanagement-Type-invoicing_InvoiceUnit-Description"></a>
The assigned description for an invoice unit. This information can't be modified or deleted.   
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 500.  
Pattern: `[\S\s]*`   
Required: No

 ** InvoiceReceiver **   <a name="awscostmanagement-Type-invoicing_InvoiceUnit-InvoiceReceiver"></a>
The account that receives invoices related to the invoice unit.   
Type: String  
Pattern: `\d{12}`   
Required: No

 ** InvoiceUnitArn **   <a name="awscostmanagement-Type-invoicing_InvoiceUnit-InvoiceUnitArn"></a>
ARN to identify an invoice unit. This information can't be modified or deleted.   
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.  
Pattern: `arn:aws[-a-z0-9]*:[a-z0-9]+:[-a-z0-9]*:[0-9]{12}:[-a-zA-Z0-9/:_]+`   
Required: No

 ** LastModified **   <a name="awscostmanagement-Type-invoicing_InvoiceUnit-LastModified"></a>
 The last time the invoice unit was updated. This is important to determine the version of invoice unit configuration used to create the invoices. Any invoice created after this modified time will use this invoice unit configuration.   
Type: Timestamp  
Required: No

 ** Name **   <a name="awscostmanagement-Type-invoicing_InvoiceUnit-Name"></a>
 A unique name that is distinctive within your Amazon.   
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 50.  
Pattern: `(?! )[\p{L}\p{N}\p{Z}-_]*(?<! )`   
Required: No

 ** Rule **   <a name="awscostmanagement-Type-invoicing_InvoiceUnit-Rule"></a>
 An `InvoiceUnitRule` object used the categorize invoice units.   
Type: [InvoiceUnitRule](API_invoicing_InvoiceUnitRule.md) object  
Required: No

 ** TaxInheritanceDisabled **   <a name="awscostmanagement-Type-invoicing_InvoiceUnit-TaxInheritanceDisabled"></a>
Whether the invoice unit based tax inheritance is/ should be enabled or disabled.   
Type: Boolean  
Required: No

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following:
+  [Amazon SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForCpp/invoicing-2024-12-01/InvoiceUnit) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Java V2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForJavaV2/invoicing-2024-12-01/InvoiceUnit) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForRubyV3/invoicing-2024-12-01/InvoiceUnit)