Tax return: What to do

If you have more than 1 business, you need to:

• add the individual results and report one joint result
• enter accounting information for each business.

If you don't get your tax assessment notice after you have filed your tax return, you will get a notification telling you what we may possibly need or when you will hear from us. The notification will tell you if you have to do something.

It may be that we need certain information before we can generate your tax assessment notice (årsopgørelse). Perhaps your spouse still needs to update an amout or we need to check an entry.

It's important that you complete and file your tax return - even if you have missed the deadline. Otherwise, we will estimate the profit of your business which you will be taxed on and we'll make an estimate of your personal tax matters to generate a tax assessment notice for you.

Request an extension of deadline in case of special circumstances

You can request an extension of the deadline in certain cases including illness or missing non-Danish information. You can do so from mid-March (when the tax assessment notice becomes accessible) and until the deadline 1 July.

Tax penalty if you miss the deadline

If you miss the deadline, you'll be charged a tax penalty of up to DKK 400 per day, though a maximum of DKK 10,000. The tax penalty will be included in your tax assessment notice automatically.

You can apply for complete or partial exemption from the tax penalty if the lack of information is due to special circumstances.

Apply for exemption from tax penalty (virk.dk)

You have to file your tax return, even if you had no turnover or if you closed your business. 

Read more about how to complete your tax return if you closed your business: Closing your business.