Main customs office Hannover (Hauptzollamt Hannover)

Customs-Lawyers represent you before the main customs office Hanover

The Hauptzollamt Hannover is one of the most important customs offices in Germany. It is located in the state capital of Lower Saxony and performs its duties from there. The HZA Hannover is so important precisely because it is responsible nationwide for issuing binding tariff information and binding origin information.

Binding tariff information from the HZA Hanover

Companies may submit an application for binding tariff information to the Hauptzollamt Hannover. With such information the customs tariff number is bindingly established. This information is binding for companies and customs authorities alike for three years. Accordingly, for the whole of Germany and Europe the customs tariff number shall be fixed at the request of the Company.

If companies do not agree with their information, they must object to the main customs office in Hanover and, if necessary, also take legal action against this main customs office.

Frequently, customs inspectors also insist that companies organise a tariff information service at the HZA Hannover. In this respect, the main customs office in Hanover is, so to speak, the key office for the determination of customs tariff numbers.

In some cases, however, such tariff information does not make sense, so that benefits and risks should be carefully weighed with legal assistance before applying.

Further tasks of the Hauptzollamt

The main customs office in Hanover also has other important tasks.

Some legal acts have transferred certain responsibilities to the main customs office in Hanover from other main customs offices. This main customs office is therefore also responsible for the other tasks:

• the approval and revocation of the running deferment of payment and the administration of the securities collected for it from the main customs offices in Berlin, Bielefeld, Braunschweig, Dresden, Frankfurt / Oder, Magdeburg, Osnabrück and Potsdam.
• Remuneration of the energy tax of the main customs offices in Braunschweig, Magdeburg and Osnabrück.
• the granting of deferrals, the request and remission of default surcharges as well as the enforcement of the resulting monetary claims in connection with the ongoing payment deferral
• approved by the main customs office in Hanover
• Determination and collection of Vehicle tax (also from the area of responsibility of the Main Customs Office Oldenburg)

Representation towards the HZA Hanover

O&W Rechtsanwälte vertritt Unternehmen has been dealing with the main customs office in Hanover for many years. All O&W attorneys working in the field of customs law have

• many years of experience with the employees of the authorities at the main customs office in Hanover
• good personal contacts with the clerks
• specific expertise in the application and appeal of binding tariff information and binding origin information

Please contact our lawyers for customs law and discuss how we can help you with the main customs office in Hanover.

Dieser Artikel wurde am 13. April 2019 erstellt. Er wurde am 30. September 2023 aktualisiert. Die fachliche Zweitprüfung hat Rechtsanwalt Dr. Tristan Wegner durchgeführt.