Payment to SKAT

In addition to registration and administration fees to be paid to DPA-System producers and importers of portable batteries are also charged with a payment to SKAT (Danish Tax and Customs Administration). This amount is to cover costs incurred by local authorities relating to collection of portable batteries from private households.

The rate for quantities put on the market in 2010 is DKK 2.78/kg, to be paid no later than 15 February 2011. The Danish EPA publish the annual rate on their homepage, se link on your right.

Who and what?

All producers and/or importers having put portable batteries on the market in the previous year must in the period from early January to 15 February report quantities of portable batteries in kilos to SKAT and pay the amount due from this quantity based on the annual fee rate.

Placing on the market means supplying or making available, whether in return for payment or free of charge, to a third party.

Kilos means the exact weight of batteries or accumulators in kilograms including the weight of the electrolyte, excluding, for instance, the weight of the appliances into which the battery has been incorporated, and excluding the weight of sales packaging, instructions and similar.