When your child gets a tax assessment notice (årsopgørelse)

Children and young people are liable to pay tax if, for example, they:

have an after-school job;
own shares and other securities and receive returns on them;
receive pension (for example from a deceased parent);
earn money from gaming, participation in e-sports, as YouTuber, influencer and more.

As a parent, you are responsible for handling your child’s tax affairs, checking the tax assessment notice and the like.

All children/young people used to get a tax assessment notice when they turned 15. In 2026, this was changed so your child get a tax assessment notice the year it turns13.

In 2025 it was introduced that no matter how old your child is it will get a tax assessment notice if we know of relevant taxable income.

This also applies even if it's rare children pay A-tax as they will be using their tax exemption card - for after-school jobs for example.

It's your responsibility as a parent to contact us if your child has taxable income and your child doesn't get a preliminary income assessment (forskudsopgørelse) or a tax assessment notice (årsopgørelse). This could be income earned as a YouTuber, influencer or non-Danish interest income or similar.

Read more in Danish about after-school jobs and tax exemption card and first job as a child/young person.

Parents are responsible for handling their child’s tax affairs. As a parent, you have to check and change the tax assessment notice so that it is accurate. You must also help link a NemKonto account to your child’s bank account and help your child pay any outstanding tax.

Young people aged 15 to 18 years are responsible, together with their parents, for their own tax affairs.
As a result, they also receive their own tax assessment notice and must check, together with their parents, that the information is accurate and make any necessary changes.

Until your child turns 18, you, as a parent, still have the ultimate responsibility for his or her tax affairs. So, you act on behalf of your child’s – and check that the information in the tax assessment notice is correct.

Young people aged 15 to 18 have access to their tax assessment notice in our online self-service system E-tax (TastSelv). They must log in using their own MitID, see MitID for 15-year-olds.

As a parent, you have to help your child report any changes to the tax assessment notice, pay any outstanding tax and more – even if you don't live together or if one parent is exempt from digital self-service.

Watch out for attempted fraud

Help your child watch out for fake emails and text messages about tax so that you avoid becoming victims of fraud.

Read about how you spot fake email and texts.

How to open your child’s tax assessment notice in E-tax:

Go to E-tax for individuals (TastSelv Borger)
Click Authorised logon
Log on with your MitID
Enter the CPR number of the child whose tax assessment notice you wish to access and click Show list. Or click Show list.
Select your child’s CPR number from the drop-down menu.
Click Next
The child’s name appears at the top of the page
Click Tax assessment notice

As a general rule, parents have access to their child’s E-tax with authorisation until the child turns 18.

If your child is aged 0 to 14 and has a tax assessment notice, you, as parent, will receive Digital Post from us, where we advise you to log on and see the tax assessment notice. See how to access the tax assessment notice in the above step guide.
If you have opted out of Digital Post, we will send the tax assessment notice by regular post to the child’s address.

If your child is aged 15 to 18 years, we will send a notification of the tax assessment notice by Digital Post to both your child and to you as a parent.
You can see and change your child’s tax assessment notice in E-tax. See how to access the tax assessment notice in the above step guide.

From when your child turns 15, he or she can access the tax assessment notice in E-tax. The child must first create a MitID to be able log on at E-tax.

If you are exempt from Digital Post or from digital self-service, we will send your child’s tax assessment notice by regular post to his or her address.

Children and young people must have a NemKonto if they receive money from public authorities – for example if they are entitled to a tax refund.

As a result, make sure that your child has registered a NemKonto before April:

If your child is aged under 15, you contact his or her bank and inform them which bank account to register as your child’s NemKonto.
If your child is aged 15 years or more, you can use digital self-service to create a NemKonto. Read more in Danish about Young people and NemKonto.

If the tax assessment notice shows that your child has paid too much tax in a full year, we will refund the overpaid tax to the child’s NemKonto in April in the following year.

If the tax assessment notice shows that the child or young person has paid too little tax in the past year, he or she must pay the outstanding tax – just like adults.
As a parent, you need to help your child pay the outstanding tax.

Log on to your child’s tax assessment notice in E-tax (use Authorised logon at Log on at E-tax for Individuals) and select Pay tax. Make sure to pay before expiry of the deadline to avoid interest and additional interest charge.

For further legal information in Danish see our legal guide .

When your child gets a tax assessment notice (årsopgørelse)

As a parent, you are responsible for reading and correcting your child’s tax assessment notice

How to see and change your child’s tax assessment notice

Get a NemKonto for your child’s tax refund

If your child has paid too little tax

Read more in Danish about children, young people and tax