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CIEL: Indirect Online Contributions (User Recipe)

Updated on 22/09/2025

For Whom

Licensed warehousekeepers in the alcohol and alcoholic beverages sector.

For What

File your monthly and/or annual returns.

When

By the 10th of each month.

Connection

CIEL (Indirect Contributions Online) allows the dematerialization of the main tax returns in the field of indirect contributions.

The online service allows you to complete several formalities in a single connection (CRD account, statement of non-discharge...) and benefit from several advantages: automated calculation of taxation, resumption of data from one month to the next, possibility to freely attach any document to your management service, etc.

The Decree of 26 March 2018 provides for the compulsory use of declaration and online payment of duties at the latest:

 

  • 1st September 2019 for wine producers (harvester-winemakers, trader-winemakers and cooperative wineries);

     

  • 31 December 2019 for other operators in the indirect contributions sector.

How do I report online based on my activity?

 

I am a harvester-winemaker, trader-winemaker or a cooperative winery belonging to a wine interprofession

 

To fulfill your reporting obligations towards Customs and your interbranch, you must fill in the requested information on the IT portal of your interbranch before validating your declaration on CIEL.

In practice, filling in the information on the inter-professional portal pre-fills the DRM in CIEL.

 

I am a harvester-winemaker, trader-winemaker or a cooperative winery not a national of a wine interprofession

 

You can go directly to the CIEL online service. You will be able to enter and validate the elements of your declaration.

 

 

I do not have a wine business (I am for example a brewer, distiller, trader, logistician, purchasing center, etc.)

 

CIEL allows you to enter your returns in two ways:

 

  • You can go to the CIEL online service and enter your declaration online;
  • You can also, once on CIEL, import a data file (XML format) that allows the automatic pre-filling of your DRM. Refer to the technical documentation available below.
Give your opinion on the online service: at the end of your entry, you will be able to give your opinion as a CIEL user.

Terms of access to the online service

Three steps to access CIEL

  • Once authorized by your managing customs service, go to CIEL to complete your first declaration online or to validate the declaration entered on your interprofessional portal:

Documentation relating to this online service

You will find at your disposal a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) listing the most frequent questions from professionals about CIEL as well as the link to the training environment to train you in remote reporting.

For operators in the field of alcohol and alcoholic beverages (brewers, wholesalers, large retailers, operators in the wine sector who are not nationals of an inter-profession, etc.), in addition to entering the elements of the declaration directly on CIEL, a DTI+ (import of XML file to pre-fill the declaration) solution is offered in order to facilitate the filing of declarations containing a large number of references to be declared.

Attention: the technical documentation (XSD, functional documentation) is different depending on whether you are an operator in the wine production sector or an operator in the alcohol sector in the broad sense.

Frequently asked questions

A DRM must be filed by the 10th of the month following the reference period. For example: the DRM for January must be filed by February 10. When the 10th day of the month is a non-working day (Saturday, Sunday or public holiday), the deadline for filing the return is extended to the next working day.

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