Will your taxes give you money back or will you pay more? It's time to access your annual tax account.

As is customary in March of each year, starting from Friday evening, Danes were given the opportunity to access and view their annual tax statements (årsopgørelse) during the trial period that began on Friday evening, while millions of users will not be able to obtain their annual tax statement before Monday, March 13.

The annual tax return allows citizens and residents who paid more taxes than they should have paid during the past year to recover the amount that the tax authority returns to that category (after deducting any debts owed to the state). Citizens and residents who paid less taxes than they should have paid during the year will find the amount due that they will have to pay in taxes. In a third case, some will find that their annual return is not ready, as they have to fill in the required information on the skat.dk website to complete the process of preparing their annual tax return.

Long digital queues can stretch for hours before entering the tax website.

More than half a million people have already started accessing their accounts on skat.dk. Denmark 24 tested the login at 2:00 AM, and there were 147,662 people in the digital queue, requiring a wait of about an hour before being able to log in to skat.dk and view the annual tax statement, which was not yet ready.

According to TV2, on Saturday morning at 08:30, 650,000 Danes logged into the site.

What is the annual tax return (årsopgørelse)?

• The annual statement is an overview of your tax for the past year, showing retrospectively what you received in income, deductions, and tax payments.
• The annual statement appears in March of each year, where you can find out if you are owed money or if you have paid less than you should have paid in taxes during the past year.
• The IRS prepares your annual statement based on the information it has about your income, deductions, bank loans, and other things, such as whether or not you own a home.
  The IRS receives approximately 92% of all your information from relevant parties, and you must fill in the remaining information, estimated at approximately 8%, yourself.

Experts warn citizens against falling prey to online scammers.

An expert on TV2 warned against falling into the trap of digital scams, explaining that the most common method that IT criminals are expected to use in relation to the annual statement is phishing, where criminals try to encourage people to send information via SMS, phone, or email, information that could give criminals access to bank account information, for example.

Therefore, the expert advises citizens to be on their guard in case they receive an inquiry that appears to be from the tax authorities, stressing that the tax authorities never ask citizens to provide personal data or information about bank accounts or payment cards. Also, they should not click on any links in these emails or text messages that are claimed to come from the tax authorities, and the best solution is to wait patiently in the queue at skat.dk or wait until next week, according to expert Jørn Guldberg.