Tax refund

You or your spouse owe money to the public authorities

If you or your spouse owe money to the public authorities and your debt has been transferred for debt collection, we will consider whether your overpaid tax should be used to bring down this debt instead. Such debt could be unpaid tax from previous years, licence fee or maintenance payments. 

You will be notified via Digital Post of how much we will withhold of your overpaid tax and when you will receive a possible refund. If you have not signed up for Digital Post, you will be notified by ordinary post.

Large tax refunds

We check your tax matters before we make a refund into your account. As a result, it may take a little longer.

Insufficient information

We may find that we need further information from you. Such information could be on profit on homes purchased by parents for their children, income from solar panels or profits or loss on securities Trading. You can enter information in your tax assessment notice until the deadline which is either 1 May or 1 July. You can check this deadline in E-tax (TastSelv).

Check your NemKonto

Please check your NemKonto by logging on to NemKonto.dk. If you have registered a specific account as your NemKonto, you can see it at nemkonto.dk.

If your refund is DKK 200 or less, it will be lost 3 months after we unsuccessfully tried to refund it to your NemKonto. After 3 months, we can no longer refund overpaid tax.

For overpaid tax in the income year 2023, the interest surplus is 0.8%.

If you are entitled to a tax refund, you need to have a NemKonto. It's an ordinary bank account which is registered as your NemKonto.

Register a Danish account as your NemKonto

You may register your Danish bank account as your NemKonto in 2 ways:

• Contact your bank
• Log on to nemkonto.dk and register your account as your NemKonto

Register a non-Danish account as your NemKonto

• Log on to nemkonto.dk and register your non-Danish account as your NemKonto
• Register your non-Danish account as you NemKonto

Alternatively, we can register your non-Danish account as your NemKonto. But it will take about 4 months for your non-Danish NemKonto to be registered and activated for you to receive a possible tax refund.

You have to send us the following information:

• Your Danish CPR no.
• Your non-Danish bank account information IBAN and SWIFT/BIC)
• A copy of your passport
• A copy of an official document stating your current address.

Please send us the information via our English contact form or by letter to:

Skattestyrelsen
Nykøbingvej 76, Bygning 45
4990 Sakskøbing
Denmark