Leaving Denmark
When you leave Denmark, there are a number of practical matters you must pay attention to.
If you move from Denmark to your home country or to another country, you must report the relocation to the Civil Registration System (CPR). This can be done by filling in a leaving form and submitting it to your municipality of residence.
You must also hand over your health insurance card.
If you move abroad for less than six months, you can retain your registered address unless you rent out or lend your house or flat.
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If you move from Denmark to another Nordic country, you must both register with the local registration authority in the country to which you move as well as deregister your address from the national register (CPR) in Denmark.
To be registered in another Nordic country, you must bring your ID and provide your social security number (CPR no.) as well as your previous address in Denmark.
You will only be registered as having left Denmark once the municipality to which you are moving has informed the municipality which you are leaving.
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Leaving Denmark entails a number of changes to your rights. When you have been registered in the Civil Registration System (CPR) as relocated to another country, you simultaneously lose your social security in Denmark.
Therefore, before you leave Denmark, you should check which social rights you will have in the country to which you are moving.
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When leaving Denmark, you must either hand in your yellow national health insurance card (“sygesikringsbevis”) at your local citizen service centre (“Borgerservice”) or destroy it (cut it up) as it only applies to individuals living in Denmark.
If you need a certificate stating your periods of social security coverage in Denmark you should ask Udbetaling Danmark.
You can contact Udbetaling Danmark by phone 70 12 80 81.
Doctor and dentist
Before you leave the country, remember to obtain your family medical and dentist records.
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When you leave Denmark it is your job and your place of residence that determine to which country you have to pay tax.
You are recommended to call SKAT on +45 72 22 28 92 once you have left Denmark and deregistered from the Danish National Register (Folkeregisteret).
If possible, SKAT will determine your tax liability instantly and let you know which documents you need to submit to SKAT in connection with your leaving Denmark.
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Before leaving Denmark, you should notify your children’s school, after- school centre, kindergarten, nursery or other care arrangement that you are going to leave. The term of notice is generally one month. Many places demand a written notice in advance.
You can also deregister from municipal childcare services digitally via Borger.dk. Most of the online self-services are in Danish, but you can always get help to fill in forms and online applications at the local citizen service center.
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Please remember always to read your meters before you move and inform your electricity and heating provider, otherwise you risk paying for more than you have consumed and you will be held responsible for the consumption until the next resident registers as a consumer.
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The Danish postal service, PostNord, can forward your mail to an
address abroad for the first six months. Registration is only online
using an online form.
In the form, Choose ’Flytning (Særlige adresseændringer)’ and
then ’Udlands adresseændring’. Here you upload a copy of your passport,
driver's license or other ID and fill in your details.
Parcels, magazines and newspapers will not be forwarded in
connection with a change of address to another country. A permanent
change of address is valid for six months and may be prolonged for
another six months.
If PostNord does not receive any information about a new address
in connection with relocation outside of Denmark, your post will be
returned to sender.
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If you have opened an account in a Danish bank, you should notify the bank of your relocation and check the possibilities of perhaps keeping your account open for approximately one year in case you receive reimbursements, e.g. for utilities or tax, or deregistration fee.
Similarly, you should contact your insurance company to terminate your insurances and ask about your insurance coverage in connection with the relocation.
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You probably paid a deposit when renting an apartment or a house. Please remember that when you move, you will be reimbursed the deposit minus any possible expenses spent on the flat. You are required to leave it as when you took it over. Any surplus of utilities will also be reimbursed.
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If you leave Denmark and stop working for a Danish employer, you can have all your holiday allowance disbursed without taking a holiday.
Read more:
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You can have your pension paid out abroad if you do not live in Denmark any longer.
Please contact your pension company, your pension fund or your financial institution if you want to learn more about your individual pensions.
You can not have your ATP Livslang Pension paid out if you leave Denmark. Read more what to do with your ATP Livslang Pension when you leave Denmark:
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Upon your departure, you have to hand over your license plates to SKAT, and you must notify one of the four Central Motor Registry Offices (“Motorcentre”) in Denmark. Your notice must include a copy of the vehicle’s original registration certificate (Part I and Part II) and registration form 21.044.
Please note that the authorities may demand a vehicle inspection of the car.
For further guidance on car deregistration and registration duty refund, please contact SKAT:
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If you leave Denmark and bring your Danish registered car with you, you are entitled to a refund on part of the paid registration duty, depending on the current market value of the car. The amount will be paid into your Danish bank account.
If you have paid registration fee in instalments, your instalment payments will expire upon the deregistration of the vehicle.
The relevant amount of registration fee will be paid out to the owner of the vehicle when 1) the current market value of the vehicle has been determined 2) the vehicle has been deregistered from the Central Motor Registry, and 3) when SKAT has received documentation that the vehicle has been exported out of Denmark.
You can apply for a refund by filling in form no. 21.044 EN. Please click here to download the form:
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