Below is a selection of cases that Bachmann/Partners Law Firm has settled successfully since we were established in 2017. Since 2017 we have successfully secured repayments between DKK 1,6-2 billion for our clients. We are indeed very proud of the results that we have obtained for our clients.

Tax news February 2022

  The latest news about the Danish tax system brought to you by Bachman/Partners Law Firm. New double tax treaty between Denmark and France The Danish Ministry of Taxation has [...]

Criminal proceedings were dropped – distribution

A shareholder had liquidated his company. Due to misunderstandings between the shareholder and the auditor, the distribution of the funds from the liquidated company had been reported incorrectly to the [...]

Illegal Shareholder Loan

Bachmann/Partners Law Firm assisted a client in a case where the Danish Tax Authorities were of the opinion that an illegal shareholder loan had been established by trade between the [...]

Fine imposed for untimely transfer pricing documentation was reduced by half

The public prosecutor had claimed a fine of DKK 125,000 to a company for each income year that the company had not submitted its transfer pricing documentation to the Danish [...]

Lack of legal basis for a discretionary assessment of gift tax

Bachmann/Partners Law Firm represented a client in a case where the Danish Tax Authorities had made a discretionary assessment of gift tax. The National Tax Tribunal rejected the ruling because [...]

Right to deferment

Bachmann/Partners Law Firm represented a client in a case where the Tax Authorities had denied the client the right to deferment. However, the National Tax Tribunal overruled the ruling from [...]

Auditor´s Professional Responsibility

Bachmann/Partners Law Firm assisted a majority shareholder in a case concerning auditor´s professional responsibility and liability. The Western High Court ruled that the audit firm had acted wrongfully by calculating [...]

Bankruptcy quarantine

Bachmann/Partners Law Firm assisted a former manager in a bankruptcy quarantine case. The trustee was of the opinion that the former manager was to be imposed bankruptcy quarantine. However, The [...]

Excise duty on mineral oils

Bachmann/Partners Law Firm represented the European Commission in a preliminary ruling before the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning Directive 2003/96/EC (the Energy Taxation Directive). The case concerned [...]

Vehicle Registration Tax – access to documents

Bachmann/Partners Law Firm represented a car dealer who had claimed a reimbursement for vehicle registration tax on exported vehicles. In order to document that the vehicles in fact were exported [...]

Vehicle Registration Tax – Seizure of vehicle

The Danish Tax Authorities had imposed vehicle registration tax on a person who had relocated from Denmark. The person had failed to notify the National Register of his emigration and [...]

Vehicle Registration Tax

The Tax Authorities had imposed a lessor full vehicle registration tax for 16 vehicles that were registered under the special provisions for proportionate vehicle registration tax with the following reasoning: [...]

Vehicle Registration Tax – Part-time employee without a written employment contract – right to use the company’s test license plates

The Tax Authorities imposed a company vehicle registration tax. The Tax Authorities considered a vehicle unjustifiably taken into use in Denmark by a part-time employee of the company who picked [...]

Vehicle Registration Tax – leased vehicles

Bachmann/Partners Law Firm won a landmark case in the Eastern High Court concerning proportionate vehicle registration tax. The court ruled that a lessor of luxury cars was entitled to claim [...]

Declaration of undeclared income

Bachmann/Partners Law Firm assisted a client to declare previously undeclared significant foreign income from a real estate portfolio. The client was taxed but the client was not met with criminal [...]

VAT – the recycling industry

Bachmann/Partners Law Firm won a landmark case at the Western High Court concerning the application of the profit margin scheme to the sale of parts removed from end-of-life vehicles. Prior [...]

Energy taxes

Bachmann / Partners Law Firm won two landmark cases about energy taxes when heat and electricity i cogenerated by utilities. The cases were decided after a very comprehensive expert appraisal [...]

Limitation of criminal liability

Bachmann/Partners Law Firm represented a majority shareholder in a case where the company in which the shareholder held shares had failed to file VAT returns. The public prosecutor charged the [...]