Document format and locale facts for Denmark

Why these defaults?

The country code comes from ISO 3166. Unicode CLDR supplies presentation-oriented locale, currency, paper, date, language, calendar, numbering, and direction metadata. Defaults reduce setup time; they do not decide what a valid document must contain.

Recorded official or regional-official language tags: da, de, kl.

Selected national claims reviewed

Document vocabulary and checks

Danish VAT invoice particulars, the five-year invoice-copy retention rule and named ten-year exception, and the paper/electronic authenticity-integrity-readability boundary are reviewed from Tax Administration sources. This generator does not implement public-sector routing or the user's accounting audit trail. Simplified, special-scheme and cross-border cases remain transaction-specific checks.

Evidence snapshot: 3 official sources · last reviewed 2026-07-20. This is scoped guidance, not a jurisdiction-wide compliance certification.

Tax labels: Moms (VAT). Business identifier labels: CVR-nummer / SE-nummer.

• Required when applicable: A full Danish VAT invoice requires issue date, a sequential identifying number, seller VAT registration number and name/address, buyer name/address, quantity and nature of goods or scope and nature of services, supply date when different, tax base and unit price excluding VAT, applicable VAT rate, and VAT payable.Evidence DK_TAX_INVOICE_CONTENT · reviewed 2026-07-18 · review by 2027-01-18 · automation advisory only
• Required when applicable: Danish VAT businesses generally retain invoice copies for five years after the end of the relevant accounting year; ten years applies to specified construction investment goods.Evidence DK_TAX_INVOICE_RETENTION · reviewed 2026-07-20 · review by 2027-01-20 · automation advisory only
• Guidance: Danish VAT rules place paper and electronic invoices on equal footing and do not require a particular signature or EDI technology, but authenticity, integrity and readability must be preserved. This generator does not implement public-sector routing or an accounting-system audit trail.Evidence DK_TAX_ELECTRONIC_INVOICE · reviewed 2026-07-20 · review by 2027-01-20 · automation advisory only

Identifier format guidance: See the relevant authority.