What our Denmark company report includes
Our Denmark reports draw on sources including the CVR Register (Central Business Register) operated by Erhvervsstyrelsen (the Danish Business Authority), the Statstidende official gazette, the Skattestyrelsen (Danish Tax Agency) tax records, court records, Finanstilsynet and Nasdaq Copenhagen for listed entities, and direct in-country enquiry. The information returned from any one source reflects what the company has filed and what is publicly accessible when the search is run. Findings are translated from Danish and presented in plain English.
Denmark's tax authority SKAT was dissolved on 1 July 2018 and replaced by Skatteforvaltningen, a group of seven specialised agencies; tax assessment and collection now sit with Skattestyrelsen (the Danish Tax Agency).
Identity & registration
- ✓ CVR Number (Central Business Register, 8-digit)
- ✓ P-number (production unit / site identifier)
- ✓ VAT number (DK + CVR)
- ✓ Legal form (A/S, ApS, IVS legacy, P/S, K/S, I/S)
- ✓ Date of incorporation, branche (industry) code
- ✓ Status (active, under bankruptcy, struck off)
People & ownership
- ✓ Direktion (executive management)
- ✓ Bestyrelse (board of directors)
- ✓ Revisor (auditor) — where appointed
- ✓ Ejere (owners) and selskabskapital
- ✓ Reelle ejere (beneficial owners) register
Financial & trading
- ✓ Audited or reviewed annual accounts (årsrapport)
- ✓ Multi-year revenue, profit & balance-sheet trend
- ✓ Size classification under the Danish Financial Statements Act
- ✓ Group consolidation (where applicable)
- ✓ Risk indicator and calculated credit limit
Risk & public records
- ✓ Konkurs (bankruptcy) & rekonstruktion (reorganisation)
- ✓ Tvangsopløsning (compulsory dissolution by court)
- ✓ Court judgements and udlæg (attachment)
- ✓ SKAT tax-debt and arrears (case-specific)
Note on Denmark data: Denmark's CVR Register is one of the most open public corporate-data systems in the world: every company's full details, including filed annual accounts, are freely available online. Every A/S and ApS must file an årsrapport (annual report) within five months of year end, and Statstidende publishes every significant corporate event including bankruptcies and compulsory dissolutions.
Why verify a Denmark company?
Denmark operates one of the most open corporate-data environments in the world. The CVR Register (Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister), administered by Erhvervsstyrelsen, captures every entity (limited companies, partnerships, foundations, associations and sole traders) with comprehensive data on directors, owners, capital, registered office and branche (industry) classification. Every A/S (aktieselskab) and ApS (anpartsselskab) must file an annual årsrapport within five months of year end, and these are publicly accessible. Public access to the reelle ejere (beneficial-ownership) register was restricted from 1 September 2025 under the EU 6th Anti-Money Laundering Directive; it is now limited to competent authorities, obliged entities and legitimate-interest applicants. Updates to CVR are typically processed within a single working day.
For most credit and procurement decisions on Danish counterparties, CVR data alone provides a substantial basis. The areas that warrant additional attention are size category (smaller ApS entities apply a simplified accounts framework that omits a full P&L), the audit-exemption thresholds (smaller ApS may not require an auditor, limiting independent assurance), and the high density of personal holding ApS companies (Denmark has a strong tradition of operating personal investment companies, so identifying whether an ApS is an active trading business or a personal holding vehicle is sometimes the first verification step).
Risk patterns we can identify in Denmark reports include konkurs (bankruptcy) and rekonstruktion (reorganisation) filings published immediately in Statstidende; tvangsopløsning (compulsory dissolution by court, often for failure to file accounts or pay taxes); SKAT tax-debt records; udlæg (debt-enforcement attachment) at the bailiff's court (fogedretten); non-filing of accounts beyond the statutory window; and recent changes of direktion or bestyrelse. Each is straightforward to identify and material to a credit, procurement or partnership decision.