Privacy Policy

Personal data is any form of information that can be directly or indirectly related to an identified or identifiable natural person. This may, for example, be information such as name, address, civil registration (CPR) number, finances, family relations, etc.

Personal data can also be information about businesses, in the case of sole proprietorships or shareholders in a company.

Processing of personal data includes all forms of handling of personal data. Typical forms of processing include: collection, registration, systematization, storage, disclosure, alignment, and erasure.

The Danish Customs and Tax Administration (Skatteforvaltningen) is the data controller for the personal data we process about you.

This means that it is the responsibility of the Danish Customs and Tax Administration that your personal data is processed in accordance with applicable rules and laws. Even if some personal data is processed by the Danish Tax Administration's external data processors, such as IT providers.

As the data controller, the Danish Customs and Tax Administration is also the party you must contact if you, for example, wish to exercise your right togain access to your personal data or wish to have your personal data rectified.

The Danish Customs and Tax Administration processes personal data that you have provided. This may, for example, be information you have submitted in connection with your tax return.

The Danish Customs and Tax Administration may also process information about you that we receive from other private individuals, authorities, and companies, such as salary information from your employer.

TV surveillance (CCTV) is conducted at the addresses of the Ministry of Taxationgroup.

The Danish Customs and Tax Administration processes personal data as part of the tasks we perform as a public authority.

The Danish Customs and Tax Administration is responsible for the tax administration relating to individuals and bussinesses. Our core tasks are the assessment and collection of a number of taxes and duties.

These include personal, business, and corporate tax, labor market contributions, property value taxes, duties, VAT, and customs.

 Furthermore, it is the responsibility of the Danish Customs and Tax Administration to collect debt to public authorities.

The Danish Customs and Tax Administration often discloses personal data to other public authorities as part of our ordinary tasks.In some cases, the Danish Customs and Tax Administration is obligated to disclose information by law.

We may disclose information to, for example, the Danish Tax Appeals Agency, the police, the courts, and other relevant authorities.

In certain situations, the Danish Customs and Tax Administration discloses personal data to private actors, such as creditors, and foreign authorities.

You have a number of rights when the Danish Customs and Tax Administration processes personal data about you. You can read more about these rights below. If you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us.

• Right to be informed: The Danish Customs and Tax Administration is required to notify you when the Danish Customs and Tax Administration collects and processes personal data about you.
  
  Among other things, you have the right to be informed about the purpose and the legal basis for the processing. In certain situations, the Danish Customs and Tax Administration may be exempt from the obligation to inform you.
  
  This applies, for example, if you are already familiar with the information, or if your interest in receiving the information is overridden by private or public interests.
  
  
• Right of access: As a general rule, you have the right of access to the personal data that the Danish Customs and Tax Administration isprocessing
  
  This means that you have the right to obtain confirmation that data about you is being processed, as well as a range of additional information, such as the period for which the data will be stored, or the recipients to whom the personal data is disclosed to.
  
  
• Right to rectification: You have the right to have inaccurate information about you rectified.
  
  
• Right to erasure: In exceptional cases, for example, if the personal data is no longer relevant to us, you have the right to have information about you erased before the time of our general ordinary erasure occurs.
  
  
• Right to restriction of processing: In certain cases, you have the right to have the processing of your personal data restricted.
  
  Where processing have been restricted, such personal data shall with the exception of storage, only be processed withyour consent, or if we need to protect another person.
  
  
• Right to object: You have the right to object to our legitimate processing of your personal data, for example on grounds relating to your particular situation.
  
  
• Right to data portability: In certain cases, you have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to have this personal data transferred from one data controller to another without hindrance.

If your partner has debt to the public sector, the Danish Debt Collection Agency may in certain cases investigate your financial circumstances. This may occur when we:

• investigate whether we can remit debt
• investigate whether we can write off debt
• investigate whether we can enter into payment plans
• investigate whether we can grant a deferral
• investigate whether we can collect your partner's tax debt from you
• calculate what your partner can pay based on your household's finances.

If we investigate your financial circumstances, we process your personal data in the same way we process all personal data. You therefore have the same rights as mentioned above.

You can read more on the page "Privacy Policy for cohabiting partners." The rules stating that we can collect your partner's tax debt from you are found in the Debt Collection Act (Consolidation Act No. 1063 of September 26th, 2024). It is also described in the law that we caninvestigate your financial circumstances in general.

You can find the Debt Collection Act at www.retsinformation.dk.

The information that the Danish Customs and Tax Administration obtain and process about you will be processed and stored in the Danish Customs and Tax Administration's IT systems, such as, TastSelv. 

We erase your personal data when it no longer serves a legitimate purpose. The specific time of erasuredepends on how long the data should be stored to fulfill the purpose of the collection.

The Danish Ministry of Taxation has appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO) to advise the Department of the Ministry of Taxation, the Danish Customs and Tax Administration, the Danish Gambling Authority (Spillemyndigheden), and the Danish Tax Appeals Agency (Skatteankestyrelsen). 

The DPO is responsible for advising the Danish Customs and Tax Administration on the processing of personal data and for monitoring that the Danish Customs and Tax Administration complies with the rules on data protection. 

The DPO is also the point of contact for citizens and businesses regarding the processing of personal data. You may contact the DPO if you have questions about the Danish Customs and Tax Administration’s processing of personal data or wish for more information about your rights.

Contact information for the Ministry of Taxation’s Data Protection Officer:

You can contact the DPO in the following ways:

• Email: dpo@sktst.dk
  
  Please notice: When you send a standard e-mail, it is not encrypted. If your e-mail contains sensitive personal data you must send it encrypted and not as a standard e-mail.
  
  
• By post: Skattestyrelsen Hannemanns Allé 25 2300 Copenhagen S Attn.: Data Protection Officer

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet) if you disagreewith the way the Danish Tax Administration processes your personal data.

The Data Protection Agency is the central independent authority that supervises compliance with the rules on data protection.

You can find the Danish Data Protection Agency’s contact information here.

Several laws regulate the processing of personal data. These rules are designed to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals when their personal data is processed.

General rules on the processing of personal data can be found in the EU General Data Protection Regulation (PDF) and the Danish Data Protection Act (Act No. 289 of March 8, 2024).

In addition, the Danish Customs and Tax Administration’s processing of personal datais in certain areas governed by a number of private acts (?).