Resident in DK but working for foreign company and paid outside DK.

Hi,

I'm moving to DK with my wife soon(we come from Mexico), I will be employed by a Danish company and paid by a Danish company, and I will pay taxes in Denmark of course, so no problem with me.

However my wife was allowed by his mexican company to keep her job as long as she promise to adapt the schedule to cover all meetings/conf. calls etc and allowed to work as home office from Denmark(she will work on the afternoons instead of morning to match mexican schedule).

So the question is if she needs to pay any kind of taxes in DK considering the following:

- Husband has work permit and residence in DK paying of course taxes to DK
- She will recieve residence card as well in DK (in process already)
- She is employed by mexican company
- She will still work for MX not DK. and sill paid in Mexico in a mexican bank account
- no income at all from any danish company or company branch etc.
- all her work is related to MX nothing to do with DK, she is just resident here and use home office to work for a foreign country in this case MX.

We Still are unaware if there are any laws to this special situation and we will like to clarify, we asked to the mexican government and from their side they said it was OK, as long as she pays taxes in Mexico for her income, which we are doing.

Thanks
Everardo

Many countries including Denmark tax residents on their world wide income.
https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/D … enmark.pdf

You need to talk to a Danish income tax consultant.  Your wife may have to declare her income in Denmark at least and then may or may not have to pay any income tax in Denmark depending on whether an income tax treaty exists between the two countries.

As far as I know, your wife will be taxated on her income in Denmark. Denmark and Mexico has no double income treaty, but the taxes paid in Mexico will be deducted the Danish tax.

But as Dogeared put it, you'll have to talk to a specialist about this issue so I advise you to contact SKAT (the tax authority) itself.
https://www.skat.dk/SKAT.aspx?oid=5050

Please share SKAT's answer with the forum.

/Nellie