Interest under section 21 of PAL from 20 February until date of payment Interest must be paid on the amount in field 892 'Interest-bearing tax for the year' based on the interest rate under section 27(5) of PAL. The Danish Tax Agency fixes the interest rate once a year and publishes it in a tax notice. Interest accrues as from 20 February of the year following the income year and until payment is made. If payment is not made as at the final due date for payment, interest accrues under section 27(5) of PAL only up to and including this date, after which point default interest will be calculated under section 28 of PAL. Interest on tax due is charged at the rate for tax due, see section 27(5), sixth sentence, while interest on overpaid tax is charged at the rate for overpaid tax, see section 27(5), fourth sentence. Please note that the rate for overpaid tax is only applied to the ordinary declaration, i.e. where too much has been paid on account. The rate is not used for correction declarations that result in tax for disbursement. Field 896 should not be completed in connection with overpaid tax. Overpaid tax accrues interest until the actual time of disbursement. The Danish Tax Agency therefore calculates the interest in connection with the disbursement. If amounts are corrected in the fields after clicking the interest calculator button in E-tax for businesses (TastSelv Erhverv), the interest calculator button must be clicked again in order for the interest to be calculated on the basis of the corrected amount. Please note that the amount constitutes a declaration of the interest calculated in connection with the ordinary declaration for the relevant income year. The amount of the interest is calculated on the amount of PAL tax due, which has not been paid on account by 19 February of the year following the income year. Interest is calculated from 20 February of the year following the income year and up to and including the day before payment is made. The amount declared here will therefore, as a general rule, not be changed in connection with subsequent corrections being made to the declaration. Interest on amounts payable or disbursable as a result of a correction declaration must accrue as a rate of interest under section 27(5) of PAL and must be declared in the field 720 or field 721 depending on whether the change concerns the tax for the individual or the tax for the institution. The field is locked for changes in connection with correction declarations. In case of an extraordinary need for changing the stated interest amount under section 21 of PAL, the Danish Tax Agency should be contacted. |