Customs duties & taxes

These pages contain information about customs duties and taxes. You will find many links to European Union services, such as summaries of the most important types of tax in different member states.

Market Access Database

The Market Access Database provides information about market entry in non-EU countries, and the conditions that need to be respected when importing to these countries. There is information about customs duties and taxes, formalities, statistics, etc.. The page is only available in English.

Market Access Database

The European Commission

The European Union's portal for taxes and customs union provides plenty of useful information.

Taxes and customs union
Databases
Links to the websites of other customs authorities
Online information service about the most important taxes
Export MRN follow-up
MRN tracking information (only for international transit)
VAT information exchange system (VIES) = validation of VAT numbers
List of customs offices
European binding tariff information (EBTI)
European customs inventory of chemical substances
Authorised economic operators
Economic operator identification and registration
Tariff quotas and tariff ceilings
System for the exchange of excise data

Federal Central Tax Office

The Federal Central Tax Office (Bundeszentralamt für Steuern) provides a range of tax-related services.
Online validation of foreign VAT ID numbers (german)
Tax Info Centre

ElsterOnline

ElsterOnline is a tool that allows users to complete many tax-related formalities conveniently online (e.g., income tax return), without any printing, forms and postage. This service is available to all registered taxpayers, tax consultants, payroll tax advice associations, and designated company representatives.

(website only available in German)

ElsterOnline

Import quotas

The integrated system for the management of licences (Système Intégré de Gestion de Licenses – SIGL) provides information about the quota levels for clothes, shoes, steel and wood products in the European Union. This site is only available in English.