DT5908 - Double Taxation Relief Manual: Guidance by country: Denmark: Admissible taxes

The following Danish taxes are admissible for credit in the UK under the convention:

  • Danish State and municipality income taxes comprising
  • main national income tax (indkomstskat til staten)
  • special income tax (srlig indkomstskat)
  • Seamen’s tax (smandsskat)
  • company income tax (indkomstskat af aktieselskaber m.v.)
  • including the supplementary tax or surcharge (tillaeg)
  • national pensions contribution (invalidie og folkepensionsbidrag)
  • dividend tax (udbytteskat)
  • Hydrocarbon tax (kulbrinteskat)
  • Communal income taxes (kommuneskat) including the church tax (kirkeskat)
  • Labour market contribution (Arbejdsmarkedsbidrag) from 1 January 2008

The following Danish taxes are inadmissible under the convention:

  • payments by way of compulsory saving (bundenobsparing) (these are not payments by way of taxation)
  • national wealth tax (formueskat til staten)
  • real interest rate tax