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      Social security and tax liability are separate issues, allowing employees to be socially secured in one country while being tax liable in another.

      Employer contributions to social security differ significantly across countries. Understanding these rules is crucial to managing the costs of working abroad and ensuring employees receive appropriate health insurance, sickness benefits, maternity benefits, unemployment benefits, family benefits, and public pensions. This is particularly relevant for Danish employers, as Denmark's social security costs are relatively low compared to other European nations. 

      Together, our Danish team has over 50 years of experience with international social security and is part of a global network of colleagues with in-depth social security insights into jurisdictional legislation and authority practices.

      Through our wide experience and dialogue with both the employee and the employer, we provide safe and solid advice on social security for each employee, regardless of your line of business or the complexity of your social security matters. 
      We help ensure your employees receive their entitled social benefits.


      Maria Louise Bergreen Pihl

      Senior Manager, Global Mobility

      KPMG Acor Tax in Denmark


      What we do

      We provide advisory services on all social security matters, but also on particularly complex matters, within applicable legislation on social security, set policies and processes as well as the implementation itself.

      We safeguard companies' compliance with EU coordination rules on social security and Denmark’s bilateral agreements on social security, clarifying employer obligations in each country.

      Our points of expertise:

      • Remote work, working from anywhere
      • Posted workers inside and outside of EU/EEA countries
      • Business travelers, installers, engineers, export drivers, and other multi-state workers
      • Öresund agreement
      • Cross-border workers
      • Civil servants/public sector employees
      • Pilots and cabin crew
      • Seafarers
      • Offshore industry
      • Artists
      • Third-country nationals
      • Self-employed persons
      • Board members
      • Faroe Island and Greenland

      We help companies develop policies and implement practices for cross-border employees, business travelers and remote workers to ensure they receive all entitled social benefits, including:
      • Special agreement application deviating from applicable rules
      • S1 and Special Health Card applications
      • Documentation on Danish social security coverage for retroactive periods to safeguard your right to social pension
      • Communication guidance/memo addressed to you and your employees about their rights to social security benefits

      We offer A1 certificate applications regarding work in EEA countries, Switzerland and UK.

      As a helping hand, we provide a customized in-house tailored A1 tool that streamlines obtaining and managing the A1 certificates for employees on business trips within the EU/EEA, Switzerland and United Kingdom, requiring minimal information from employers, including retroactive period. 

      We assist with Certificate of Coverage applications regarding work outside of EEA countries (Denmark has bilateral social security agreements with several countries).





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