The Danish Property Assessment Agency is using a legal loophole to send Nordhavn apartment owners backdated land‑tax bills averaging DKK 220,000—and they say they won’t accept it.
Eight-year-old tax error comes back to bite—triggering a surprise DKK 7.5 million bill Danish Property Assessment Agency
Peter Westphal, chair of the owners’ association at The Silo in Copenhagen’s Nordhavn district, says he can’t see the fairness in the Danish Property Assessment Agency issuing a DKK 7.5 million back-bill because it claims it made a mistake eight years ago. Foto: Martin Lehmann
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It came as an unpleasant surprise when 34 condominium owners in Nordhavn, a waterfront neighborhood in Copenhagen, received a property assessment last summer informing them that the valuation of their apartments had been changed retroactively — by eight years.
It came as a shock when the revised land valuation suddenly triggered back taxes of several hundred thousand kroner for the building’s 34 owners. The average extra bill was DKK 220,000, with the largest reaching DKK 382,000.
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