Business situations for companies

• Apply for seasonal short-time allowance

  If your business belongs to the construction industry or an equivalent business and you experience loss of work during the so-called bad-weather period, you can partially compensate for your employees' loss of earnings through seasonal short-time allowance.

• Apply for transfer short-time allowance

  If your company has to permanently reduce staff due to restructurings, you can receive transitional short-time allowance (Transferkurzarbeitergeld) for these employees for a limited period, which partially compensates for the loss of earnings during this time and supports the search for new employment.

• Apply for a KfW loan in combination with a federal repayment grant for deep geothermal energy
• Apply for a data transmission block for your data stored in the Central Register of Foreigners

  If you are registered in the Central Register of Foreigners, you can apply under certain conditions to have your data withheld from disclosure.

• Apply for a European Technical Assessment (ETA)

  If you would like to obtain a European Technical Assessment (ETA) for your construction product, you can apply for it at the German Institute for Building Technology (DIBt).

• Exemption from motor vehicle tax for registered electric vehicles

  You have bought a pure electric vehicle or subsequently converted an internal combustion engine vehicle into a pure electric vehicle? Then you can be exempt from motor vehicle tax for up to 10 years.

• Apply for a refund of the motor vehicle tax for the transport of vehicles by rail

  If you transport your vehicle by rail for a certain number of trips within a 12-month period, you can, under certain conditions, receive a full or partial refund of the motor vehicle tax.

• Customs inspection – Import bans
• Importing goods from EU countries into Germany

  You can bring goods from any EU country into Germany. However, there are guideline quantities for certain goods.

• Waren (Reisemitbringsel) aus Nicht-EU-Ländern nach Deutschland einführen (Zollkontrolle)

  Sie können Waren aus Ländern außerhalb der EU nach Deutschland einführen. Für bestimmte Waren gibt es allerdings Mengen- und Wertgrenzen.