Excise / EMCS

AI-driven EMCS movements
for excise goods, end-to-end.

Automate e-AD creation, dispatch, in-transit handling and report-of-receipt for alcohol, tobacco and energy products across the EU, plus periodic excise tax declarations.

Phase 4.2

EU EMCS spec ready (live 12.02.2026)

IE815→IE818

full e-AD lifecycle automated

VA100-VA201

EVA declarations & refunds covered

Audit-ready

every message archived

Digicust prepares EMCS movements and excise tax declarations from your ERP and commercial documents, validates them against national rules (EVA in Germany and Austria, MOVE in IT, EMCS in FR/NL) and submits IE815 / IE810 / IE813 / IE818 messages while tracking the lifecycle until the report-of-receipt is closed. Periodic excise filings (VA100 declarations, VA101 corrections, VA200/VA201 refund requests) are generated from the same product and movement data.

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How it works

From source data to filed and tracked

The same agentic workflow that runs your customs declarations runs this sub-solution, connected to your data, your authorisations and your existing systems.

Step 1

Pull dispatch & period data

From ERP sales orders, deliveries, commercial invoices and stock movements, or via email/PDF for ad-hoc movements and monthly EVA reporting periods.

Step 2

Compose & validate the message

Excise product codes, units (LIT/KGM/MIL), packaging, transport mode, guarantee, consignee and (on exports) AES Office of Export and ARC are filled in and validated against the receiving country's rules and Phase 4.2 schema.

Step 3

Submit, track, close

Digicust submits the e-AD or EVA declaration, monitors status, processes the IE818 report-of-receipt and posts excise duty entries back into your ERP automatically.

Capabilities

What the AI does for you

Each capability runs as part of the same agent, with no separate tools and no additional integrations.

e-AD generation (IE815)

Draft, sign and submit electronic Administrative Documents from sales orders, invoices and ERP data, including LRN, ARC tracking, transport units, guarantees and seals.

All excise product groups

Beer (B000), wine, spirits (S400), cigarettes (T200), mineral oils (e.g. E430), gas and electricity, with CN code, alcoholic strength, °Plato and density handled per CL11/CL12.

Movement lifecycle

Dispatch (IE815) → in-transit → report-of-receipt (IE818) → discharge. Origin (tax warehouse vs. after-import release) and destination type (warehouse, registered consignee, direct delivery, exempt, export, unknown) are inferred and validated.

EVA excise tax declarations

Periodic VA100 filings (and VA101 corrections) for beer, alcohol, intermediate products, tobacco and energy, with raw materials, tax-free usage, tax-free delivery and per-line tax-rate logic.

Refund requests (VA200/VA201)

Generates excise refund applications with reason codes, refund period and per-position amounts, reconciled back to the original VA100 declaration via correlation IDs.

Exception handling

Cancellations (IE810), change-of-destination (IE813) and discrepancies on receipt are detected and the right message is drafted automatically, including AES Office of Export linkage on exports.

Authorisation & guarantee aware

Knows your tax warehouses (SEED), registered consignors/consignees, excise numbers, VID and the guarantor type (consignor, transporter, owner, consignee or none required).

Inputs

Documents & data we work from

Email, web upload, API or direct ERP/WMS sync: the agent accepts the inputs you already have.

Sales Orders & Delivery Notes

Commercial Invoices

Bonded Warehouse Releases

Excise Authorisations & Licences

Transport / Carrier Documents

Bills of Lading

Production Records

Stock Movement Reports

Use Cases

Where teams put this to work

Pick a scenario closest to your operation. Every bullet is supported out of the box.

Beverage producers

Brewery, winery and distillery dispatches with °Plato and % vol
Tax warehouse to tax warehouse (DestinationTypeCode 1)
Export under duty suspension with AES Office of Export linkage
Returns, breakage and small-producer relief flags
Excise duty postings to ERP per member state

Part of one platform

Part of Digicust's Agentic Declaration Filing platform. The same AI agent runs imports, exports, transit, intrastat and special procedures from one place, so you can see how it all fits together.

Agentic Declaration Filing overview

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Digicust is aligned with the EU EMCS Phase 4.2 schemas in force since 12.02.2026, including the updated IE815 / IE810 / IE813 / IE818 structures, destination type codes (1-6, 8) and AES linkage on export movements.

Yes, through the national gateways (EVA in Germany and Austria, MOVE in Italy, the Dutch and French EMCS endpoints). Where direct gateway access isn't available we generate the validated XML for portal upload.

Yes. Beyond the movement messages, Digicust generates VA100 monthly declarations and VA101 corrections, plus VA200 / VA201 refund requests with reason codes, covering beer, alcohol, intermediate products, tobacco and energy, including tax-free usage, tax-free delivery and raw-material subgroups.

That's the whole point. Digicust shares product master data, parties and authorisations across customs filings, EMCS, EVA and Intrastat so you don't keep four different sets of data.

All standard EMCS message types are supported. IE810 cancellations, IE813 change-of-destination and IE818 discrepancies on receipt are detected automatically; the agent drafts the right message and waits for your confirmation before sending.

Yes. Rates per member state, product group and tax period are maintained and versioned, with effective-from dates, so historical movements and EVA periods remain reproducible.

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