Declaration of excise duties

If you have not had any activity in your business during the taxable period, you must remember to file a 0 declaration for the period, to avoid the consequence of a provisional assessment.

If you have registered your business for an excise duty in Denmark, you are obliged to declare and pay the tax to the Danish Tax Agency via E-tax for businesses (TastSelv Erhverv).

Read more about excise duties in our Danish-language legal guide.

For more detailed, comprehensive legal information concerning the delayed or missing declaration of an excise duty, see our Danish-language legal guide.

For most excise duties, the tax period is the calendar month, with a declaration deadline of the 15th of the month after the end of the tax period.

See our Danish-language legal guide for the periods applying to the individual type of excise duty. 

In E-tax for businesses you can see the periods in which declaration can take place.

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