Payout & Taxes

Your net earnings will not be affected - you will however experience that your earnings will look smaller because taxes have already been paid, once you receive it into your account.

On the payslip you can, among other things, also see how much you have earned before tax, how much you have paid in tax and also how much you will be paid after tax. If you encounter any errors on your payslip you should contact Wolt by writing to Support and we will look into your case and see if there has been an error.

Your personal tax rate determines how much tax that we will withhold from your earnings. There are two main factors that determine your personal tax rate:
AM-contribution (“arbejdsmarkedsbidrag”) and the withholding rate (“trækprocent”).

1) AM-contribution is at a 8% fixed rate, and paid by everyone in Denmark who is employed. This is deducted before personal allowance is applied to the remaining salary.
2) Withholding rate is a percentage based on your income, the municipality that you live in, if you’re a member of the church and state tax. This is deducted after AM-contribution and personal allowance are factored in. It can range from 36-53% depending on income.

You can read more about taxes and your tax rate at Skat's website right HERE.

If you have any questions about your taxes, you will have to contact Skat. You can find their contact information right HERE 💙

The amount of taxes that we will withhold depend on which tax card that you use for your Wolt earnings.
- The Primary tax-card (“hovedkort”) usually includes various deductions, including your personal allowances and are usually used at your main income.
- The secondary tax-card (“bikort”) is just a flat tax rate without deductions; this is usually used on all secondary income sources.

If you have multiple jobs you should consider which one you earn the most from. A rule of thumb usually is if most of your income is from Wolt, choose your Primary tax-card (“hovedkort”). But if you have multiple sources of income and Wolt is not your main income, then choose the Secondary tax-card (“Bikort”).

Wolt will by default use your Secondary tax-card to determine the taxable amount that we will withhold from your earnings.
If you already had your documents approved during your onboarding, and do not want us to use your Secondary tax-card to determine your tax rate, then you will need to inform Support by reaching out to us through the Wolt Partner app.

It is important that the preliminary income assessment (Forskudsopgørelse) reflects your anticipated income. Until now, you have very likely paid B-income tax rates on your CP earnings from Wolt, however going forward, it is important that your tax card reflects that tax withholding is now being applied. Therefore, your previous business income on the preliminary income assessment should now be changed into A-income. This can be done online at SKATs website HERE, where you can amend the data yourself.

You will need to have a tax withholding percentage calculated. Otherwise Wolt is obligated to withhold tax at 58.6%. However, your final tax bill is settled each March and any overpaid tax will be paid out to you on your NemKonto. Thus, you should make certain that your preliminary tax assessment reflects the anticipated income pattern.

You can no longer deliver with Wolt as a CVR-registered company. You can only deliver as a private person registered via your CPR-number, which means that you are most likely not entitled to claim tax deductions for your operating expenses eg. patrol, gas, expenses related to vehicle(s).

However, you will likely be able to claim transport deductions (“Befordringsfradrag”) for your transport between your home address and work, plus the distance traveled at work. To our best knowledge, you will be entitled to a transport deduction calculated in accordance with Section 9 C of the "ligningsloven" daily driving beyond the first 24 kilometers per day. The deduction for 2023 amounts is DKK 2.19 per km up to 120 km and then DKK 1.10 for the following km.
You must be able to document the driving that forms the basis of the deduction and must therefore register your driving daily in connection with doing deliveries.

The total deduction calculated for the entire year must be stated on your 2023 tax return in box 51 (field 417).

OBS: The ‘driving’ data you can find in your statistics tab in the partner app is all the kilometers that you’ve traveled in total when you were online and might not be equal to what you can use for transport deduction.

Please be aware that Wolt can not advise you on your individual transport deductions, please contact SKAT for more support. You can read more about this right HERE.

Yes, it is important for us to emphasize that the tax ruling does not mean that you are now an employee of Wolt or that you will become one. Aside from withholding your taxes, we will continue to treat you as a freelance partner in all aspects of the partnership. We will not monitor or performance manage you in any way - and you still decide when, how and if to work. We are not moving towards full employment and we will do anything in our power to protect the freedom and flexibility that the vast majority of you appreciate highly.

This decision does not change any dialogues we have entered with 3F or any other unions. Our focus has always and will continue to be finding ways to better protect and offer flexibility to couriers.
And on a positive note, when Wolt withholds taxes from your earnings, you don't have to spend hours on administering the reporting of earnings and taxes to the authorities. We know that tax administration has been a burden and a hassle for some of you for a long time.

Because the decision by the tax authorities only covers your tax status. This is what is changing.
And while we believe in working towards a model where further social securities are included, we have to make sure that this is not included at the expense of the flexibility and freedom that couriers prefer when working with Wolt.
We continue to explore and work constructively for a solution that combines freedom, flexibility and the comfort of social securities.