SKAT () was the
tax
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from 2005 until its reorganization in 2018 as a result of several serious scandals. It had been the state authority under which the Danish Treasury calculated and collected taxes and levied charges. The authority also undertook property valuation and settlement of debts.
SKAT was organized into different core units and 30 local tax centers. Tax Centers are located across the country although Danish citizens can in principle apply to any tax center. There were also 22 customs operations. SKAT had been created by the merger of the National Customs and Tax Administration and the municipal tax administrations.
From 1 July 2018, Skatteforvaltningen took over the responsibilities of the former SKAT, and Skatteforvaltningen became a group of 7 different tax agencies with specific areas and functions, with the agencies continuing to share the skat.dk website.
History
2019 Copenhagen tax office bombing
In August 2019, a powerful bomb detonated and damaged a tax office building in Copenhagen and one person was wounded by splinters. Swedish citizens Nurettin Nuray Syuleyman and Zacharias Tamer Hamzi were found guilty by Copenhagen City Court, sentenced to a prison sentence and thereafter permanently banned from returning to Denmark.
Scandals
Dividend tax
Closing
Following a number of serious scandals that plagued SKAT between 2000 and 2016, it was decided on 12 June 2017, to close SKAT in 2018, instead creating seven new agencies with specialized areas.
See also
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CumEx-Files
The CumEx-Files is an investigation by a number of European news media outlets into a tax fraud scheme discovered by them in 2017. A network of banks, stock traders, and lawyers had obtained billions from European treasuries through suspected f ...
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Macquarie Group
References
External links
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Revenue services
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