Pay trade tax for the German Wine Fund
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzIf your company bottles German wine products and sells them to commercial resellers or sells them abroad without bottling or purchases products for bottling, you must pay a quarterly levy of EUR 0.67 per 100 liters to the German Wine Fund (DWF).
The DWF is an organization of the German wine industry. It promotes the quality and sales of wine through joint, non-competitive marketing measures at home and abroad. The DWF charges a fee for carrying out its tasks.
You do not have to pay a levy
- if you sell a wine product to end consumers that was produced exclusively from grapes harvested on your premises,
- if you are part of a winegrowers' cooperative or producer group of a different legal form and sell a wine product to end customers that was produced exclusively from grapes harvested on the members' premises, or
- if the tax owed is less than EUR 80.00 per calendar year.