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      CAS Excise

      Excise management software

      Automate your excise administration and remove the complexity of manual processes. Our Excise Management module supports EMCS movements and tax warehouse administration across multiple countries, automating duty calculations, stock tracking, and reporting while ensuring efficient, compliant management of excise goods.

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      Why excise management matters

      Effective excise management is essential for businesses handling alcohol, tobacco, and other excise goods. Managing excise processes and reporting requires rigorous compliance measures, as the risks of non-compliance can be severe. Many organisations struggle with the following topics.

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      Operational disruptions

      Manual data entry causes shipment delays, tracking errors, and compliance risks. The complexity further increases due to varying national and regional regulations, think of varying duty rates, units of measure, etc. Moreover, each product category has specific requirements, making accurate data management critical.

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      Warehousing complexity

      Excise warehouses (or tax warehouses) defer duty payments but require meticulous stock tracking. Businesses must document every movement, ensuring full transparency for audits that can review records from the past three to six years.

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      Financial impact

      High upfront duty costs and varying excise rates across product categories and jurisdictions create cash flow risks. Errors in manual calculations can lead to severe fines or excise duties under suspension becoming liable, while scattered data across systems makes compliance challenging. 

      How excise managements works in CAS

      To overcome the challenges of excise management, automation plays a critical role in improving accuracy, maintaining real-time compliance, and optimising cash flow. By replacing manual processes with automated controls, businesses reduce errors, avoid costly delays, and simplify complex regulatory requirements. This allows organisations to manage excise obligations efficiently while remaining competitive in a highly regulated environment.

      CAS is designed to address the full complexity of customs and excise management, offering a digital-first solution for businesses handling excise goods across multiple countries. It standardises and automates key excise processes, embeds compliance by design, and reduces manual effort and financial risk. With built-in governance, real-time visibility, and scalable architecture, CAS provides a reliable foundation for excise operations today and as regulations and volumes evolve.

      CAS’ excise functionality consists of four elements:

      1. Self-assessed duties calculation

      When goods are released into free circulation, CAS automatically calculates self-assessed excise duties. Results are immediately available through the user interface, reports, and dashboards, giving clear visibility into suspended and paid duties over time. This supports accurate financial planning, cash flow management, and consistent duty treatment across countries.

      2. Automated movement registration in EMCS

      CAS registers excise movements in the EU and UK via the Excise Movement and Control System (EMCS), fully integrated with customs declarations. Using a single message, double filing approach, one dataset covers both excise and customs processes, reducing duplication and manual errors.
      Built-in validations enforce required data and process steps before submission, while automated exception handling and a complete, time-stamped audit trail ensure consistent execution. A four-eyes validation principle can be applied to critical changes, strengthening governance and reducing compliance risk.

      3. Financial advantages with Tax/Excise Warehousing

      CAS enables businesses to store and produce excise goods under duty suspension, deferring excise payments and optimising cash flow. Stock movements, processing activities, and compliance reporting are automated, with full traceability and audit trails. This ensures tight control over warehouse operations while reducing administrative effort and supporting scalable use of duty suspension regimes.

      4. Compliance monitoring

      CAS provides clear visibility into the status of excise movements, allowing businesses to quickly identify and address pending actions or approvals. The system simplifies the management of open EMCS shipments, tracks duties under suspension, and flags overdue movements (e.g. those exceeding ‘x’ days). Additionally, CAS highlights open duties, allowing businesses to take prompt actions to maintain compliance and avoid penalties. 
      Compliance is reinforced upfront through enforced validations and local configuration, while centralised, audit-ready data makes it easy to demonstrate compliance during internal reviews and external audits. This reduces disruption, lowers audit risk, and provides confidence across tax, finance, and operations teams.

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      "As CAS took over the manual work, often the more repetitive and tedious tasks, it freed up time to focus on other aspects of customs operations, such as compliance and reporting. Thanks to the automation in CAS, we have shifted from a reactive to a proactive approach in managing customs processes."

      Olenex
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      Benefits of CAS Excise Management Software

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      Streamlined compliance

      CAS embeds excise compliance directly into customs administration, removing the need to manage multiple systems and disconnected processes. Standardised workflows, enforced validations, and reusable master data ensure excise obligations are executed consistently across sites and countries. Flexible integration options, including APIs and Excel uploads, allow businesses to adapt without losing control, while continuous regulatory updates ensure compliance keeps pace with evolving legislation.

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      Automated operations and reporting

      CAS turns excise management into a fully automated flow, covering excise movements, duty calculations, stock tracking, and reporting. Real-time status updates and guided workflows reduce manual intervention and exception handling. Tailored, jurisdiction-specific reports are generated automatically, supporting periodic reporting and audits without the manual effort typically associated with excise compliance.

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      Cash flow optimisation

      By enabling duty suspension through tax / excise warehousing, CAS helps businesses defer excise payments until goods are consumed. Automated stock administration and clear visibility into suspended and paid duties give finance teams better control over excise exposure. This improves cash flow predictability, reduces working capital pressure, and supports more effective financial planning as volumes grow.

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      Operational efficiency and scalability

      CAS replaces spreadsheet-driven, manual excise processes with a standardised, automated approach that scales across locations and countries. Teams work from a single source of truth with real-time status tracking, reducing rework, firefighting, and reliance on individual expertise. As a native-cloud solution with seamless ERP integration, CAS scales with increasing volumes and regulatory complexity without adding operational burden, enabling businesses to grow while maintaining efficiency, control, and compliance.

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      Streamlined compliance

      CAS embeds excise compliance directly into customs administration, removing the need to manage multiple systems and disconnected processes. Standardised workflows, enforced validations, and reusable master data ensure excise obligations are executed consistently across sites and countries. Flexible integration options, including APIs and Excel uploads, allow businesses to adapt without losing control, while continuous regulatory updates ensure compliance keeps pace with evolving legislation.

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      Automated operations and reporting

      CAS turns excise management into a fully automated flow, covering excise movements, duty calculations, stock tracking, and reporting. Real-time status updates and guided workflows reduce manual intervention and exception handling. Tailored, jurisdiction-specific reports are generated automatically, supporting periodic reporting and audits without the manual effort typically associated with excise compliance.

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      Cash flow optimisation

      By enabling duty suspension through tax / excise warehousing, CAS helps businesses defer excise payments until goods are consumed. Automated stock administration and clear visibility into suspended and paid duties give finance teams better control over excise exposure. This improves cash flow predictability, reduces working capital pressure, and supports more effective financial planning as volumes grow.

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      Operational efficiency and scalability

      CAS replaces spreadsheet-driven, manual excise processes with a standardised, automated approach that scales across locations and countries. Teams work from a single source of truth with real-time status tracking, reducing rework, firefighting, and reliance on individual expertise. As a native-cloud solution with seamless ERP integration, CAS scales with increasing volumes and regulatory complexity without adding operational burden, enabling businesses to grow while maintaining efficiency, control, and compliance.

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      "We are very happy with the support we receive from C4T. Their expertise in the field is evident, and they respond quickly whenever an issue arises or when we need guidance. The technical knowledge within the C4T team is outstanding, they often only need a quick glance at a document or error to suggest an immediate solution. While we have built strong in-house expertise over the years, it’s invaluable to have a team of specialists available for support when needed. Kudos to the entire team!"

      Christof Van Roey
      Credit Manager - Reynaers Aluminium
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      FEATURES

      Features you'll love

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      Excise management and customs declarations in one central place

      Manage excise administration and customs declarations in one central platform. Eliminate manual handovers, reduce complexity, and maintain full visibility and control across all excise and customs processes.

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      Visibility and audit-ready reports

      Gain access to excise data from all of your locations worldwide, being EMCS movements, duties paid, or tax warehousing stock records, and review relevant KPIs via intuitive dashboards and built-in reporting.

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      Validation before submission

      Our four-eyes validation principle ensures that changes to excise data, such as adjustments to excise duty calculations or declarations, require approval from at least two individuals, ensuring compliance.

      Read our Excise Whitepaper

      Download our free whitepaper to discover the nature and significance of excise goods, the complexities that customs professionals often encounter and the available solutions to overcoming the challenges.

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      Frequently asked questions about our excise management software

      Do you have more questions about excise? Here are answers to the most common inquiries we get. 

      What are duty suspended excise goods?

      Duty suspended excise goods are products like alcohol, tobacco, and energy that have not yet had excise duties paid on them. These goods remain in a duty-suspension state while in transit to their final point of consumption, where the excise duties are eventually paid.

      Does the excise functionality in CAS cover all excise products?

      Yes, we make sure our excise functionality is applicable to all types of excise products, including alcohol and intermediate products, tobacco, and energy products.

      How does CAS maintain the administration for tax warehousing?

      Tax warehouse administration in CAS is accounting-based (record keeping). Stock records are based on movements derived from the data received from your ERP or WMS source system. The stock records, housed in CAS, are the basis for reporting to authorities. 

      Elevate your excise management with CAS

      Ready to embrace excise management that brings efficiency and financial advantage? Contact us for a meeting to discover how our solution can benefit your business.

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