Increase in transport deduction for 2026

Update your preliminary income assessment – and see what you get this year

The Danish Parliament has passed an increase of the transport deduction rates for all of 2026 retroactively. From 9 July, you can update your deduction for transport between home and work in your preliminary income assessment to include the increased deduction in your tax and salary in 2026.

You're entitled to a deduction for transport between home and work if you commute more than 12 km to work (so a total of more than 24 km to and from work) a day. This also applies to all kinds of paid work subject to labour market contribution, including student jobs, paid work experiende and wage subsidy jobs.

You'll get a deduction for the number of days you actually commute. So, you can't claim transport deduction for the days you work from home, are on holidays or out sick. Please note that all means of transport entitle you to a deduction.

How to update your transport deduction to include the new increased rates

If you want the increased transport deduction to apply to your July salary, you have to update the deduction in your preliminary income assessment (forskudsopgørelse) no later than 20 July (field 417).

If you update your assessment in the period of 20 July and before 21 August, you will get the deduction in your salary for August.

Please note that the above dates are merely guidelines as it depends on your employer.

If you have already entered your deduction for transport in your preliminary income assessment before 9 July, you still have to update it in E-tax to benefit from the increased rates in your regular tax for 2026.

When you update your assessment, your tax card is automatically updated for the rest of the year. This means that the increased transport deduction will be distributed to the remaining months of the year.

Remember to update your transport deduction in your tax assessment notice (årsopgørelse) which is available from March 2027

Your deduction for transport between home and work is not automatically transferred from your preliminary income assessment (forskudsopgørelse) to your tax assessment notice (årsopgørelse). So, don't forget to claim your transport deduction in your coming tax assessment notice.

Log on to E-tax (TastSelv)
Click Forskudsopgørelsen (Preliminary income assessment)

If you haven't claimed a transport deduction before, you go to Oftest tilføjede felter (Most frequently added fields) and select Kørselsfradrag (Transport deduction). Click the calculator. Go to step 3.

If there is already a number in Befordring (Transport) (field 417), you click the calculator next to the field.
- If there is not a transport situation, you go to step 3.
- If there is already a transport situation, you click the pencil to update your transport situation (you may have more than one).

Check the information - also if the number of expected days of travelling to and from work is correct. Go to step 6.
State the period of employment. You can click the calendar to select start and end dates. If you have been employed the entire year, you select 1 January as start date and 31 December as end date.
Enter the address of your workplace
Click Næste (Next)
Now, you enter the number of days you travel to work - or check if the number of days already entered is correct. Enter the number of days you expect to commute to and from work each month.
Click Næste (Next)
You can now see your transport deduction. You can also see our calculation. The new rates are included.
Click Overfør til forskudsopgørelsen (Transfer to preliminary income assessment)
Click Beregn (Calculate) at the bottom of the page
Click Godkend (Accept)

3 steps to a correct transport deduction

Use your calendar
Calculate your transport deduction (Currently in Danish)
Enter deduction in both your preliminary income assessment and tax assessment notice

Video: How to claim your transport deduction in your preliminary income assessment

Video: How to claim your transport deduction in your tax assessment notice

Claim your transport deduction in your preliminary income assessment and tax assessment notice

Change your preliminary income assessment (field 417)

Change your tax assessment notice (box 51)

You can't get a deduction for transport between home and work if:

your employer pays for your transport
you have a company car at your disposal
you drive to and from unpaid internship
you travel to and from your place of education (as the state education grant (SU) is not considered a salary. But certain rules apply from 2026 if you live in a peripheral municipality or on a small island.

Is the transport deduction something I get paid?

No. If you are entitled to a deduction and report it in your preliminary income assessment, it will be included in your tax during the year. You will also have to claim your transport deduction in your tax assessment notice.

The value of the deduction is approx. 26%.

Example: If your deduction for transport between home and work is DKK 5,000, you will save approx. DKK 1,300 in tax.

Good to know about the transport deduction

Deduction rates for 2026 and 2025
Transport per day	Deduction per km per day for 2025	Deduction per km per day for 2024
0-24 km	DKK 0 (no deduction)	DKK 0 (no deduction)
25-120 km	DKK 3.17	DKK 2.23
25-120 km	DKK 3.51 in peripheral municipalities and certain small islands)	DKK 2.47 in peripheral municipalities and certain small islands)
More than 120 km	DKK 1.59	DKK 1.12
More than 120 km	DKK 3.51 in peripheral municipalities and certain small islands	DKK 2.47 in peripheral municipalities and certain small islands

Deduction rates for 2026 and 2025 when crossing toll bridges
Bridge	Additional deduction per trip in 2026 and 2025
Great Belt (Car/motorcycle)	DKK 110
Great Belt (Train/public transport)	DKK 15
Øresund (Car/motorcycle)	DKK 50
Øresund (Train/public transport)	DKK 8

Pia lives in Vejle and works in Horsens all of 2024. She travels a total of 60 km each day.

Pia goes by train and has a commuter ticket.

Pia's deduction per day is:
60 km - 24 km = 36 km x DKK 2.23 per km:	= DKK 80.28

Pia's transport deduction for 2025:
Working days (excluding holidays and days off):	248 days
Holidays and days off:	- 30 days
Days working from home or being away on courses etc.:	- 10 days
Days off sick:	- 5 days
Pia's total deduction: (203 days) x DKK 80.28	= DKK 16,297

Jens lives in Roskilde and works in Odense all of 2024. He travels a total of 258 km every day.

The toll bridge deduction for the Great Belt Bridge is DKK 110 each way by car and DKK 15 each way by train in 2025.

Jens' deduction if he goes by car:

120 km - 24 km = 96 km x DKK 2.23 per km.	DKK 214.08
Over 120 km: 258 km - 120 km = 138 x DKK 1.12 per km.	DKK 154.56
Toll bridge deduction: 2 x DKK 110 each way	DKK 220.00
Jens' deduction per day:	= DKK 588.64

(Remember to keep documentation for paying the toll.)

Jens' deduction per day if he travels by train:

120 km - 24 km = 96 km x DKK 2.23 per km.	DKK 214.08
Over 120 km: 258 km - 120 km = 138 x DKK 1.12 per km.	DKK 154.56
Toll bridge deduction: 2 x DKK 15 each way.	DKK 30.00
Jens' total deduction per day	= DKK 398.64

Use your official address

Your official address registered in the Danish national register (Folkeregistret) is considered your place of residence. If you are temporarily staying at a different place (like your holiday home, a hotel, with family or friends) you should calculate the deduction between your temporary place of residence and your work. However, your deduction can't be any higher than the deduction you get for transport between your usual place of residence and your work.

The actual travel distance

You must use the actual travel distance between your official home address (the one registeret with the Danish national register) and your workplace. This does not have to be the shortest route.

If you take the train or the bus, the normal distance by car is applicable. If, for example, you pick up colleagues or drop off/pick up children, you should not include the extra kilometres.

The route to your workplace may in some cases be longer than the route calculated by our system in E-tax (TastSelv). In such cases, you must enter the distance yourself. You do so by changing the number of kilometres in the field Afstand per dag (Distance per day) to make it match the number of kilometres you actually travel per day.

If the distance between your home and workplace is unusually long, you may be required to provide documentation.

If you earn less than DKK 391,500 (before labour market contribution is deducted) in 2026 (DKK 375,800 in 2025), you are entitled to an additional deduction for transport between home and work.

The additional deduction amounts to maximum DKK 30,800 in 2026 (DKK 15,400 in 2025). It is reduced gradually for income between DKK 341,500 and DKK 391,500 in 2026 (DKK 325,800 - 375,800 in 2025).

The system automatically calculates the additional deduction on your preliminary income assessment and tax assessment notice.

If you drive to and from the same workplace more than once a day, you are entitled to a deduction if travel more than 24 km in total a day.

You have to claim 2 deductions for transport between home and work where you adjust the number of kilometres per day to match the number you actually travel.

This is how you claim two deductions for transport in E-tax

Claim a deduction for transport where you enter the number of days a month where you have travelled to and from work one time.
Claim a deduction for transport where you enter the number of days for each month where you have travelled more than once to and from work. Enter the number of kilometres you have done in total per day in field ‘Afstand pr. dag’ (Distance per day).

Example:

Lynn is a school teacher and has 30 kilometres to and from work. Some days she goes back and forth between home and the school twice as she has parents teacher meetings in the evening. For such days she claims an additional deduction and enters 60 kilometres per day. In this way, the first 24 kilometres will not be deducted from the total distance twice.

If you travel from your home to several workplaces in the course of one day, you are entitled to a deduction for transport if you travel more than 24 kilometres in total.

You leave your home for the first workplace. From there you go to workplace no. two and then back home.

This is how you report this kind of deduction i E-tax

Claim a deduction for transport between home and work where you enter your home address and the address for workplace no. one.
Select ‘Tilføj arbejdsadresser til denne rute (trekantskørsel)’ (Add work address to this route) and enter the address of workplace no. two.
Enter number of days per month.

If you travel from your home to several workplaces in the course of one day, you are entitled to a deduction for transport if you travel more than 24 kilometres in total.

This is how you claim your deduction for transport in E-tax:

Claim a deduction for transport between home and work where you enter your home address and the address for workplace no. one.
Select ‘Tilføj arbejdsadresse’ (Add work address) and enter the address of workplace no. two.
Enter number of days per month.
Manually, enter the total kilometres in the field ‘Afstand pr. dag’ (Distance per day).

Example:

Max works as a temp in two different workplaces on the same day. He has 30 kilometres from his home to one of the workplaces. There are 10 kilometres between the two workplaces and from workplace no. two to his home he travels 40 kilometres.

Sometimes, Max gets home before he heads off to this workplace no. two. He needs to enter the total number of kilometres manually. In this way, the first 24 kilometres will not be deducted twice from the total number of kilometres.

Do you have a job, where you are only at home at the weekend? Some people travel to work on Mondays and come back home on Fridays.

In such cases, your travel is considered one daily trip and the first 24 kilometres are only deducted once.

This is how you claim your deduction for transport in E-tax:

Example 1: A place to stay the night is not the same as a workplace.

Deduction for transport 1 is claimed as follows:

Claim deduction for transport where you enter you home address and the address for your workplace.
Select ‘Tilføj arbejdsadresse’ (Add work address) and enter the address of where you stay the night.
Enter the number of such trips (days) per month. In this way, your deduction for transport for Monday and Friday will be calculated automatically.

Deduction for transport 2 is claimed if the distance from where you stay the night to your workplace is more than 12 kilometres each way.

Claim another deduction for transport where you enter the address of the place you stay and the address of your workplace for the days Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Example 2: If your place to stay is the same as your workplace

Claim a deduction for transport where you enter you home address and the address of your workplace. Your travel to and from work is considered to have taken place the same day.
Enter the number of such trips (days) per month. One trip is from home to work on Monday and back home on Friday. In this way, the first 24 kilometres are only deducted once.

If, for example, you work as a temp and travel to many different workplaces, you can't use our guide to calculate your deduction for transport between home and work.

In this case, you have to keep track of your transport manually and save the information for tax assessment notice.

We recommend that you keep track of your transport (travel log) where you register your workplaces and the route you travelled.

When you have to calculate your deduction for transport between home and work, you have to do it per day. If you have travelled the same route for more days, you can calculate the total deduction for these days.

This is what you do

Calculate the number of kilometres you have travelled per day. You do that from your home and to the first workplace, from there to the next and so on until you get back to your home. If you have travelled in between the different workplaces, you also have to include this travel

Once you know how many kilometres you have travelled per day, you can calculate your deduction here (Currently in Danish).

See video: How to calculate your transport deduction manually

At the end you add the deduction for all your working days and enter it in your preliminary income assessment or tax return.

You enter your expected transport deduction in field 417 (Befordringsfradrag) in your preliminary income assessment.

In your tax assessment notice, you click the calculator next to box 51 to enter your actual transport deduction.

Please call us on (+45) 72 22 28 28 if you have problems claiming your transport deduction.

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Additional information on the transport deduction

Read more about the different transport situations. It could be that you travel very long distances to and from work, go by ferry or plane or carpool with colleagues.

Transport deduction for people with a disability or chronic illness

People suffering from a disability or chronical illness who have special expenses for transport between home and work, may in certain cases be entitled to an additional deduction..

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How to update your transport deduction to include the new increased rates

Get the increased deduction included in your July or August salary

Step-by-step guide: How to update your preliminary income assessment

Video: How to report your transport deduction in your preliminary income assessment