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Taxes in Denmark 2011

What are the tax rates for 2011? How can you calculate the taxes that you need to expect?
How much taxes do you have to pay for 2010? What should you be aware of?

Taxes 2011
Taxes 2010


 

Taxes 2011

These are the current tax rates in Denmark: 

  • Job market contribution (AM bidrag): 8%
  • Health system contribution (sundhedsbidrag): 8%
  • The municipal tax (kommuneskat): about 25% (depends on your kommune).
    Find the municipal tax rate for your kommune.
  • The bottom-bracket tax (bundskat): 3.64 % (changed)
  • The top-bracket tax (topskat): 15%
    Top skat applies to income above 389,900 DKK
  • Each tax-payer has a personal allowance (personfradrag) of 42,900 DKK
  • Employees have an employment allowance (beskæftigelsesfradrag) of max 4.25% resp. 13,600 DKK.

See a visual presentation of the tax rates.
 

Tax calculator 2011 (in Danish) / Tax calculator 2011 (in English)

Check a sample form (in English) for the income tax return. Refer to the numbers in the boxes on the sample form.
If you have questions to your Danish tax erturn, get help from Peter Kellerman A/S.

Find more details on the Danish tax system in our resource section
and also in the Worktrotter's Guide to Denmark.

Changes in the tax rates 2010
- biggest change: the middle-bracket tax (mellemskat) has been discontinued.
- These are the current tax rates: 
  - Job market contribution (AM bidrag): 8%
  - Health system contribution (sundhedsbidrag): 8%
  - The municipal tax (kommuneskat): about 25% (depends on your kommune)
  - The bottom-bracket tax (bundskat): 3.76 % (changed)
  - The middle-bracket tax (mellemskat): discontinued
  - The top-bracket tax (topskat): 15%

  - Each tax-payer has a personal allowance (personfradrag) of 42,900 DKK
  - Employees have an employment allowance (beskæftigelsesfradrag) of max 4.25% resp. 13,600 DKK.
  - Top skat applies to income above 389,900 DKK 

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