Release of preliminary tax statements, employment up for foreign nationals, SAS gets fine over lockdown emails and more news from Denmark this Tuesday.
Preliminary tax returns released online
The Danish Tax Agency (Skattestyrelsen) has today released preliminary tax returns for all Danish taxpayers online.
You can view your preliminary tax return by logging on to the Skat.dk platform using the digital ID MitID.
The site is busy with a large number of people queuing to log in as of this morning, but should become easier to access throughout the day.
The preliminary returns show your income information and details of all the various taxes you pay, including the likes of property tax, as well as the deductions you are eligible including commuter deductions.
The Danish Tax Agency bases preliminary tax returns on the previous year’s final tax statements, meaning the new ones do not account for changes in your personal circumstances which have happened since the 2024 tax year.
Updates can be made to the preliminary tax statement throughout 2026, but to ensure they take effect by the first paycheck of next year, changes should be made in advance.
READ ALSO: What to look for on your Danish preliminary tax return
‘Non-Western’ immigrants close to Danes on employment stats
Persons classed by Denmark’s Statistics agency as ‘non-Western immigrants’ – meaning they or both their parents were born in a country categorised as not being in the West – have reduced a gap in employment rates compared to Danes, an analysis has shown.
The analysis by thinktank Economic Council of the Labour Movement (Arbejderbevægelsens Erhvervsråd, AE) shows the demographic has increased its employment number by 30,000 over the last three years.
The difference in employment levels between the group and people with Danish heritage is now smaller than ever, AE writes, with 61.8 percent of the former group in work in the second quarter of 2025 compared to 75.7 percent of the latter.
This means the difference has shrunk by 2.8 percent over the last three years.
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SAS fined for misleading emails during Covid pandemic
Airline SAS has been hit with a fine of 1 million kroner in a ruling at Copenhagen City Court in a case relating to emails sent to 18,201 customers during the first Covid-19 lockdown in spring 2020.
The case took place after state consumer watchdog Forbrugerombudsmanden filed a report against the company. Prosecutors for the watchdog demanded a fine of 1.5 million kroner.
The court agreed with the ombudsman that SAS sent emails to customers between March and May 2020 which appeared to advise the customers that their flights had been cancelled, even though this was not the case.
The purpose of the emails was to mislead customers, the consumer ombudsman had argued.
Airline customers have the right to a refund if their airline cancels their flight, but not if they cancel their ticket themselves or do not show for a departure.
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Food prices up again despite inflation decline
Food prices in Denmark are 4.1 percent higher than they were in October 2024 despite an inflation rate of 2.1 percent.
Inflation was 2.1 percent in October, a decline from the rate of 2.3 percent posted in September, new figures from Statistics Denmark show.
But the stable inflation rate – a measure of the average change in prices over the last year – does not reflect the higher rate at which food is getting more expensive.
Food prices were 4.1 percent higher last month than they were in October, meaning inflation on food pulled the overall inflation figure upwards.