Your things-to-do-list - Nordic citizens

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Living in Denmark

After arrival in Denmark:

1. Register at the office of the Danish National Register (Folkeregister) in your town of residence, as soon as you have received your EU residence certificate. Once registered you will receive a personal registration number (CPR-number) and a National Health Certificate (Sygesikringsbevis/ Sundhedsbevis) by mail within a few weeks.

 

2. Apply for a tax card at SKAT

 

or

if you are employed as a postdoc, an associate professor or as a professor, you can apply for 25 % taxation, Section 48 E of the Danish Withholding Tax Act. The department will provide you with the form. Read more about tax in Denmark in Tax in Denmark. An introduction - for new citizens, NOVEMBER 2005.

 

3. Open a bank account.

 

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Bring your passport and information about housing with you.

 

If you live in Frederiksberg, you go to:

Frederiksberg City Hall

Smallegade 1

2000 Frederiksberg

 

At the National Registration Office (Borgerservice) they register data about the citizens of Frederiksberg. They also help people to get a CPR number and a National Health Service medical card.

 

Visit Frederiksberg Kommunes website or call:

Tel 3821 2100

Fax 3821 2970

 

Opening hours:

The Citizen Service Centre is open for personal
applications or by phone:
Monday - Thursday: 10 - 17

Friday - Saturday: 10 - 14

 

If you live in Copenhagen, you go to - depending on in which part of the city you live:

 

Borgerservice:

Indre By
Jarmers Plads 7
1551 København V

 

Sundby
AmagerCentret 147
Reberbanegade 3
2300 København S

 

Valby

Gl. Køge Landevej 3

2500 Valby

 

Vanløse
Vanløse Torv 1, 1. sal
2720 Vanløse

 

Østerbro
Trianglen 1
2100 København Ø

 

Opening hours:

Monday – Friday 10 - 18

Tel.: 70 80 70 60

Email:

 

If you live elsewhere contact the local authority.

 

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Before SKAT can issue you a tax card, they require certain information about you. Among other things, they need to know how much you expect to earn during your first year of work in Denmark. You therefore need to bring documentation in the form of your employment ontract or your offer of employment. Bring also relevant legitimation, e.g. your passport with you.

 

Your tax liability in Denmark depends on how long you are staying and on your employer’s ties with Denmark. A distinction is made between full and limited tax liability. Residents in Denmark and persons, who are staying in Denmark for a period longer than 6 months, are subject to full tax liability, and must pay tax in Denmark on their total income, including income from other countries.

 

Once SKAT has the necessary information, they calculate and issue a tax card which your employer can then use. They also ask that you inform them of your employer's name, address and company registration or CVR number so they can send the tax card directly to the employer.

 

TAX center Copenhagen (Skattecenter København)

Sluseholmen 8B
2450 København SV

 

Opening hours:

Monday - Wednesday: 10 - 14

Thursday: 10 - 17

Friday: 10 - 14

 

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Go to the bank and open a bank account. Request your bank to register this account as a your Nemkonto (Easy Account).

 

Bring relevant legitimation with you, e.g. your passport, letter with your CPR number and the employment contract or the employment offer.

 

Employed at LIFE

Not living in Denmark:

 

1. Apply for a tax number and a tax card at SKAT

or

 

if you are employed as a postdoc, an associate professor or as a professor, you can apply for 25 % taxation, Section 48 E of the Danish Withholding Tax Act. The department will provide you with the form.

 

2. Open a bank account.

 

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TAX (SKAT)

Before SKAT can issue you a tax number and a tax card, they require certain information about you. Among other things, they need to know how much you expect to earn during your first year of work in Denmark. You therefore need to bring documentation in the form of your employment ontract or your offer of employment.

 

Once SKAT has the necessary information, they calculate and issue a tax card which your employer can then use. They also ask that you inform them of your employer's name, address and company registration or CVR number so they can send the tax card directly to the employer.

 

Bring also relevant legitimation, e.g. your passport with you.

 

TAX center Copenhagen (Skattecenter København)

Sluseholmen 8B
2450 København SV

 

Opening hours:

Monday - Wednesday: 10 -14

Thursday: 10 -17

Friday: 10 -14

 

Ad 2)

Go to the bank and open a bank account. Request your bank to register this account as a Nemkonto.

 

Bring relevant legitimation with you, e.g. your passport, letter with your CPR number and the employment contract or the employment offer.