EXCISE IN GERMANY

Verbrauchsteuer or consumption tax is the German equivalent of excise duty.

Excise duty in Germany

It is a collective name for many separate taxes, which together can be called consumption taxes.
You can specify individual taxes with this collective name:
• Energiesteuer
• Stromsteuer
• Kernbrennstoffsteuer
• Zwischenerzeugnissteuer
• Tabaksteuer

Excise duty on passenger cars in Germany.

The most common advice of our law firm regarding excise duty concerns excise duties on passenger cars.

Many Polish entrepreneurs decide to register passenger cars in Germany in order to avoid paying Polish excise tax on used cars.

Trading in luxury passenger cars is also affected by this issue.