Excise Duty Management

Understand how Lexir handles excise duty across products and markets, including under-bond stock, duty-paid sales, and clearing routes.

Excise Duty Management covers how excise duty is handled across different products and markets within the Lexir model.

Excise duty is charged on alcohol by the relevant authorities. Different product types can be subject to different excise rates, and different countries apply their own rules, timelines, and handling methods.

What Excise Duty Management includes

Excise Duty Management can include:

under-bond and duty-paid handling
the excise position of stock in storage
the excise position of goods in transfer or delivery
market-specific excise rates and handling requirements
fiscal stamping where required after products are cleared into duty-paid status

How it works in practice

Excise duty handling is not the same in every market.

Some markets allow products to be cleared quickly into duty-paid status, like UK, France, Netherlands. Others involve longer settlement or processing cycles. Some markets also require fiscal stamps once products have been cleared and duty has been paid, such as Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

That means stock in storage can sit in one excise position, while goods moving into transfer or delivery may move into another depending on the market, the product type, and the clearing route being used.

In some markets, excise duty can be cleared immediately or close to the point of movement. In others, it is more efficient to clear products in batches rather than one order at a time, especially where settlement follows a longer or more structured cycle.

What Lexir manages

Lexir manages excise duty handling in line with the product, market, and route through which goods are stored, cleared, moved, and delivered.

That can include coordinating the relationship between:

product type and applicable excise rate
stock status
under-bond or duty-paid movement
market-specific clearing process
transfer and delivery routes

The aim is to keep excise duty handling tied to the real operating flow of the goods, not separated from it.