If you trade or transport goods that are subject to excise duties within the EU, you have to take the provisions set for excise duties into account. We prepare your excise duty returns and ensure that all the administration is processed correctly. Our unique excise duty application automates the entire process, saving you money and allowing you to easily expand your business to other countries.
What we do for you
- You give us an overview of your products and flow of goods, and we advise you about the processes related to excise duties.
- We act as your representative for matters related to excise duty.
- We keep digital stock records of your movement of goods.
- We promptly make an excise duty declaration to pay the levies due.
- If you choose to manage your own excise authorization, we’ll assist you with the application and organization of the required administration.
- If you want to make your administration even more efficient, we have software applications that automate your stock management and accompanying documents.
Our services
We are committed to helping you conduct your excise duty processes as accurately as possible. This means that we take a look at your business model to offer you our most cost-efficient solution and provide services based on the needs of your business. We take a look at your flow of goods and product streams together with you and come up with tailor-made, procedural arrangements that ensure your orders are processed as smoothly as possible. We have developed internal software applications, so that you can choose a manual process or a fully integrated solution.
Why choose SGS?
The world of customs services can be complicated and frustrating. SGS’s e–Customs expertise and coverage is very practical, serving a range of large and small clients, which includes transporters, forwarders, exporters and importers. SGS e-Customs takes the complexity and the frustration away from their clients, offering them a single window system to complete customs procedures.
Brokerage Services
SGS clients benefit from a whole suite of customs related services, such as export, import, representation, VAT services, certificate of origin and fiscal representation in several EU states. Services can be bundled or standalone. Clients can use our tool as SaaS or with the support of our declarants. SGS brokerage services in the Netherlands and Belgium are offered via our AEO certified affiliates.
Transit – Multinational Coverage Customs Guarantees
SGS clients can submit transit declarations from 25 NCTS and non-NCTS countries through a single application. Clients do not need their own customs guarantees; this is all provided by SGS. Our multilingual application embeds all national rules, enabling clients to create their transit declarations themselves and monitor them from departure to termination. SGS TransitNet is an authorised consignor and AEO certified in several countries. We offer additional services to support outbound journeys.
24/7 support
Clients of SGS can avail themselves of 24/7 support for all matters connected to their e-Customs services related declarations. Our team of over 300 customs and logistics experts is available to troubleshoot and advise, no matter how big or small the topic may be.
SGS e-Customs by the numbers
1,000,000+
Transit declarations per year
300,000+
Export and import declarations per year
25
Countries covered
14,000+
Satisfied clients
