A new ruling from the National Tax Court means that the Danish Tax Court must decide how drivers get to work. At least when it comes to driving allowances.
But a new ruling means that the tax authorities can now reject all Danish drivers' travel deductions. At least if the drivers do not have a map of the route to and from work that the tax authorities have decided on. This is basically the shortest route.
This is what Finance writes.
The media writes that the National Tax Court's decision means that the Tax Authority can refuse to credit a driving deduction, even if the driver may have chosen the fastest route.
Because it is not certain that the fastest route is the shortest. Specifically, the authority fought with a citizen over two possible routes between his residence in Aarhus and his work in Copenhagen. However, the trip did not take place in a car at all.
The two possible routes:
Route 2: Via E45 and E20 over the Great Belt Bridge (longer distance) – the driver's preferred route with public transport.
Route 1: Via Odden-Aarhus/Ebeltoft by ferry (shorter distance) – the one that Skat took as its starting point.
The National Tax Court ended up ruling in favor of the Tax Court in the first decision, because the distance by ferry is much shorter, and you cannot get a mileage deduction for anything other than the shortest trip. Even though the citizen took public transportation, the normal route for cars was decisive, the decision states.
Not even if the trip is made by public transport. The National Tax Court also believes that citizens' preferred route is abnormally long compared to the shortest route by car.
This is not the first time that the Danish tax authorities have been right when it comes to cars. Boosted has already told how the authorities want to get their hands on people in vintage cars. Even though the owners – that is, the drivers – on paper got better terms in 2021. Read more about it here .
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