🇩🇰 Retire abroad
Retire in Denmark, priced from your own plan
Denmark is the near-abroad option where the language is close and the rules feel familiar. Its share-income tax has two steps, so the size of your yearly drawdown decides your rate.
What Runway models in Denmark
- Share income at 27 percent up to the yearly threshold and 42 percent above it, so realisation size matters
- Net rental income at a representative rate
- No wealth tax
- Kroner to kroner: DKK spending priced through your FX scenario
| Tax area | What Runway applies (2026) |
|---|---|
| Investment gains | Progressive (27% then 42%) |
| Rental income | 37% modelled on net rent |
| Wealth tax | None modelled |
| Leaving home | Any exit tax your home country charges, priced into the move |
The move itself is part of the price
A move to Denmark is never just Denmark's tax rules. Leaving a country that charges an exit tax, Norway among them, can trigger a bill on unrealised gains as if you sold on the way out, and Runway prices that into the plan before a single DKK of spending is modelled. The mechanics are in what an exit tax costs when you leave, and the wider tooling question in which FIRE calculators handle a move abroad.
Once you are there, your spending runs in DKK through an exchange-rate scenario you control, so a weak krone decade is a plan you can stress, not a surprise.
Price the whole move, not the postcard
Runway prices a retirement in Denmark end to end from your own plan: any exit tax on the way out, Denmark's taxes on the drawdown, and your spending in local currency. Your freedom age is free.
Download free on the App StoreFrequently asked
What tax does Runway assume on investment gains in Denmark?
Runway applies Denmark's two-step share-income tax, 27 percent up to the threshold and 42 percent above it, and a representative rate on net rent. The figures are 2026, income-year-stamped, and refreshed as rules change.
Do I still pay an exit tax if I retire to Denmark?
It depends where you leave from. Norway charges utflyttingsskatt on unrealised gains and several other home countries charge an exit tax of their own. Runway prices whichever one applies to you into every plan that retires to Denmark, as a cost of the move, before the destination's own rules take over on the drawdown.
Why does my Danish rate change year to year?
Because Denmark's share-income tax is a two-step scale. Years where you realise less stay at 27 percent; larger drawdown years tip into 42 percent above the threshold. Runway applies the steps rather than one blended guess.
Figures are 2026, income-year-stamped estimates from the Runway country pack for Denmark, produced by the same engine the app runs. They are educational estimates, not financial or tax advice: rules change, and personal cases differ. See the full country list.