--- title: "About excise duties" description: "Introduction The Excise duty functionality in Visma Net enables you to keep track of the excise duties (særavgifter) you have to pay on certain products. You can also keep track of sales to and returns from locations excluded from excise duties. For each month, you can create reports of all invoiced excise duties and excise duty exceptions, which you can use when you report these to the tax authorities. In this topic This topic describes: what excise duties are and how they…" lang: en languages: en: https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/excise-duty/about-excise-duties/index.md lastmod: 2026-02-19 --- > Documentation index: https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/excise-duty/llms.txt # About excise duties Last modified February 19, 2026 > Introduction The Excise duty functionality in Visma Net enables you to keep track of the excise duties (særavgifter) you have to pay on certain products. You can also keep track of sales to and returns from locations excluded from excise duties. For each month, you can create reports of all invoiced excise duties and excise duty exceptions, which you can use when you report these to the tax authorities. In this topic This topic describes: what excise duties are and how they… ## Introduction The **Excise duty** functionality in Visma Net enables you to keep track of the excise duties (særavgifter) you have to pay on certain products. You can also keep track of sales to and returns from locations excluded from excise duties. For each month, you can create reports of all invoiced excise duties and excise duty exceptions, which you can use when you report these to the tax authorities. ## In this topic This topic describes: + what excise duties are and how they work in Visma Net, + the differences in excise duty handling between order types, + how excise duties are calculated, + how excise duties are recorded to the general ledger, + what to do when it is time to report excise duties. ## Excise duties background and setup in Visma Net ### What are excise duties? Excise duties include duties like environmental tax and alcoholic beverage tax. For Norway, you use the following document for setting up excise duties: [Veileder for bruk av koder ved fastsettelse av særavgifter](https://www.skatteetaten.no/bedrift-og-organisasjon/avgifter/saravgifter/rapportere/saravgiftsmelding/kodeveileder/). Read more on the [Skatteetaten website](https://www.skatteetaten.no/bedrift-og-organisasjon/avgifter/saravgifter/). ### Excise duties in Visma Net In short, the excise duty functionality consists of duty type/group combinations with a set duty rate and one or more connected items per combination. When you sell and invoice an item that is connected to a duty group/type, the order and invoice will show an excise duty total. When it is time to report excise duties to the tax authority, you can create a list of all excise duties for a certain period. You will need to report them manually. For more information on how to set up and use excise duties, see [Enable and set up excise duty](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/excise-duty/enable-and-set-up-excise-duty/index.md). ## Sales and returns ### Excise duty handling per order type The following table gives an overview of the differences in how the excise duty is handled for different order types for sales and returns not excluded from excise duty calculation: |Order type|Excise duty total|Excise duty factor in [Sales/returns including excise duty (EF402000)](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/excise-duty/excise-duty-windows/sales-returns-including-excise-duty-ef402000/index.md)| |---|---|---| |**QT**|Sum of excise duty amounts on lines|not applicable| |**SO**, **CS**, **SA**, **IN**|Sum of excise duty amounts on lines|**1**| |**CM**, **RC**, **CR**|Sum of excise duty amounts on lines|**-1**| |**RM**|Sum of excise duty amounts on **Issue** lines, minus the sum of excise duty amounts on **Receipt** lines.|+ **-1** for returned items + **1** for newly issued and invoiced items| |**RR**|0|not applicable| |**TR**|not supported|not supported| > [!NOTE] > that you can not use the **RR** order type when an item's duty calculation has changed, even if the item price for the customer is the same. These changes will not be traceable in the [Sales/returns excluding excise duty (EF402000)](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/excise-duty/excise-duty-windows/sales-returns-excluding-excise-duty-ef402000/index.md) or [Sales/returns including excise duty (EF402000)](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/excise-duty/excise-duty-windows/sales-returns-including-excise-duty-ef402000/index.md) window. ### Returned and credited items The way of calculating the excise duty amounts and setting the excise duty factors is the same whether or not a returned or credited item is based on an invoice. This means, that returned and credited items based on an invoice can be affected by a new customer location exemption status and/or duty rate set after the invoice was released. Therefore, the excise duty amounts may differ compared to the invoice. ## Calculations of excise duty amounts The excise duty amount calculations depend on: + Duty rate, + Calculation rule, which can be calculation based on: + line amount, + quantity on order line, + How many duties an item is connected to, + Excise duty factor. See the sections below for more information about each of these points. ### Duty rate You set the duty rate in the [Duty rates (EF207000)](//index.md) window. The start date determines which rate is used. ### Calculation rule You set the calculation rule in the [Duty groups (EF205000)](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/excise-duty/excise-duty-windows/duty-groups-ef205000/index.md) window. The following options are available: + **Turnover factor**: the duty amount is calculated based on the **Manual amount**, which is the line amount after discount, as `Duty rate x Manual amount`. + **Standard**: the duty amount is calculated based on: + quantity on order line, + conversion factor from the duty UoM to the base unit, + conversion factor from the UoM on order line to the base unit. See the next section for more information about the **Standard** calculation rule. ### Standard calculation rule formula For the **Standard** calculation rule, the UoM used on the order line is considered when calculating the line's excise duty amount. As this UoM may differ from the duty UoM in various ways, this comes down to the following three calculation formulas:
UoM on order line is same as Formula to calculate excise duty amount on line
Duty UoM Duty rate x Quantity on order line
Base unit

Duty rate x Quantity on order line x Duty conversion factor

The duty conversion factor is set on the Excise duty tab in the Stock items (IN202500) window.
Sales unit or other UoM

Duty rate x Quantity on order line x Duty conversion factor x or / Conversion factor

The conversion factor from the UoM on the line to the item’s base unit is set in the unit conversion table on the General settings tab in the Stock items (IN202500) window. Depending on the operator set there, the formula contains multiplication or division by this conversion factor.
#### Item connected to several duties When a line item is connected to several active duties, the separately calculated duties will be added together. #### Excise duty factor The excise duty factor indicates whether the excise duty amount is to be paid, reimbursed, or it can set the excise duty amount to 0. The following table displays which factor is automatically set for which situations, and which windows you can use to track them. |Factor|Used for|Inquiry window| |---|---|---| |**1**|Sales, excise duty to be paid|[Sales/returns including excise duty (EF402000)](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/excise-duty/excise-duty-windows/sales-returns-including-excise-duty-ef402000/index.md)| |**-1**|Returns, excise duty to be reimbursed|| |**0**|Sales and returns to customer locations exempted from excise duties.|[Sales/returns excluding excise duty (EF402000)](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/excise-duty/excise-duty-windows/sales-returns-excluding-excise-duty-ef402000/index.md)| #### Excluded customer locations Deliveries to certain customer locations, i.e. diplomats, are exempted from excise duties but still need to be reported to Skatteetaten. You can exclude a customer location from excise duty calculations in the [Customer locations (CR303010)](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/customer-ledger-windows/customer-locations-cr303010/index.md) window. All excise duty amounts for these locations will be 0. ## General ledger batch After you have released an invoice with excise duties, the excise duty total is recorded to the general ledger. For a sales order with an order total of 1250, of which the VAT total is 250 and the excise duty total is 74, the following accounts are involved: |Account|Debit|Credit| |---|---|---| |Customer ledger account|1250|0| |Liability account (VAT)|0|250| |Income account|0|926| |Excise duty sales account|0|74| |Excise duty sales offset account|74|0| |Excise duty payable account|0|74| ### Excise duty accounts The accounts to which the excise duty amounts are recorded, are retrieved from the [Stock items (IN202500)](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/inventory/inventory-windows/stock-items-in202500/index.md) window, and if empty, from the [Posting classes (IN206000)](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/inventory/inventory-windows/posting-classes-in206000/index.md) window. ## Reports of sales and returns with excise duties When it is time to report your sales and returns with excise duties to the tax authorities, you can use the [Sales/returns excluding excise duty (EF402000)](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/excise-duty/excise-duty-windows/sales-returns-excluding-excise-duty-ef402000/index.md) and [Sales/returns including excise duty (EF402000)](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/excise-duty/excise-duty-windows/sales-returns-including-excise-duty-ef402000/index.md) windows. In these windows, you select the period which you want to report to display a table with all sales and returns for that period. You can use these to manually report excise duties.

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