The Customs Administration may grant you a deferral of claims arising from the tax debt relationship in whole or in part if immediate collection when due would cause you considerable hardship.

Under certain conditions, your main customs office can appoint a tax assistant to establish facts relating to your company's goods that are relevant under customs or excise law.

For listed buildings and buildings within monument areas or protected facilities, you can apply for a certificate of measures taken to preserve or sensibly use the monument or building and their costs.

Did you take less water last year than permitted in the water law notice? Then you have the opportunity to apply for a reduction in the water abstraction fee.

You can apply for a tax reduction for commercial watercraft moored in the port and using shore power while moored. You can obtain the permit from your local main customs office.

For monuments and buildings within listed areas or protected complexes, you can apply for an assurance of the expected certification of measures carried out for the preservation or appropriate use of the monument or building and their costs.

For cultural assets worthy of protection, you can apply for an assurance regarding the expected certificate for production and maintenance measures. The tax office requires this assurance in order to be able to notify you of the expected assessment basis for the tax relief.

Do you extract water on a large scale for commercial, agricultural or forestry purposes? In exceptional cases, they may be exempt from the water abstraction fee.

Apply for a tax number to register and pay insurance or fire protection tax.

The fulfillment of your company's tax obligations can be taken over by tax representatives. You submit an application for the appointment of tax representatives to the main customs office responsible for you.

If you handle energy products such as petrol or heating oil, you must pay energy tax. To do this, you submit a tax return to the relevant main customs office in which you calculate the tax yourself. This is known as a tax declaration.

If you want to register or change your tax number or tax identification number to use the Internet EMCS application, you must submit an application to the Directorate General of Customs.

If you have to pay electricity tax, you submit a tax return to the relevant main customs office in which you calculate the tax yourself. This is known as a tax declaration.

If you have a fishing license issued, you must pay the fishing tax in addition to the fee.

Air carriers that operate commercial passenger air traffic and transport passengers from German airports to destinations must register and pay the air traffic tax.

Air carriers are required to register with the relevant main customs office for air transport tax. Tax representatives for air carriers must apply for a permit from the responsible main customs office.

If you, as an insurer, receive remuneration for fire insurance, residential building insurance or household insurance, you must calculate the fire tax yourself and declare it to the Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt).

If you receive insurance payments, you must calculate the insurance tax yourself and register it with the Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt).

If you want to organize race betting, public lotteries and games or sports betting and this has been approved by the competent authority, you are obliged to register and pay the tax arising from this with the competent tax office.

If you have received preferential treatment or relief for electricity or energy tax, you must report this to the customs administration in certain cases.

If you as an individual or company pay for services from a service provider based in a non-cooperative tax jurisdiction, under certain circumstances you must withhold, declare and pay a portion of your payments as income or corporation tax.