The Danish tax authorities failed to collect 25,000 to 30,000 property tax loans that homeowners were supposed to repay when they sold their homes, the National Audit Office says, calling the situation unsatisfactory.
While some homeowners have wrongly been billed DKK 30,000, DKK 50,000 and even DKK 100,000 in housing taxes they did not owe, tens of thousands of homeowners have, so far, escaped paying the debt they have built up to the state by deferring increases in their housing taxes.
The debt is due when homeowners sell their property, but the new property valuation and housing tax system—costing more than DKK 5 billion—has simply been unable to collect the loans.
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