Hi! I’m trying to figure out how this works in practice and was wondering if anyone here has been in a similar situation.
I currently work for a small Danish company (an agency), but I’m considering moving to Norway and continuing to work remotely from there. I’m a web developer and the company only has Danish clients – so there’s no business activity or customers in Norway.
From what I understand, the salary would normally be taxed in Norway since the work would physically be performed there. In that case I would likely need to report the income to the Norwegian tax authorities and pay the tax in Norway myself if my employer doesn’t withhold Norwegian tax.
I’ve tried reading up on this on skatteetaten.noand I also called them to ask about it – but honestly it almost felt like they knew less about this specific situation than what I managed to find myself 😅 So I thought I’d ask here as well.
What I’m mainly trying to understand is:
- Has anyone here worked for a foreign company (espeically nordic) while living in Norway?
- Did any issues come up around “permanent establishment” for the employer because of working from a home office?
- Did you handle the taxes yourself in Norway, or did the employer have to register there?
Just trying to get a realistic idea of how people actually solve this in practice. Also very happy to hear if there are things I should make sure to clarify with the employer or Skatteetaten before doing anything.
Thanks! 🙂
Working remotely for a Danish company while living in Norway – anyone with experience?
byu/tirilg inNorway
Posted by tirilg
9 Comments
Too many variables to be able to be able to help. You have to ask your company to help you on this.
I work remotely for a foreign company, but I’m a Norwegian citizen. You need a local business entity if your employer doesn’t have one. It can either be an enkeltmannsforetak (sole proprietorship) or an aksjeselskap. You’ll need to do your own book keeping and pay your taxes every quarter, but with software like fiken or Tripletex, it’s not very hard.
Unless the company has a norwegian branch im not sure you can be employed there remotely. There might be some EEA rules that makes this easier, havent looked into it though. Easiest might be to get a enkeltpersonsforetak and your employer hires your company. Im by no means an expert, so id give skatteetaten a call. I am pretty sure the taxes would be paid in norway though.
Can confirm what others said. I worked for an American company that had legal presence in Sweden, but that was not good enough. It was needed to have local presence in Norway
https://nordisketax.net/pages/no-NO/workin/norway/private/
https://nordisketax.net/pages/no-NO/workin/norway/private/
https://www.norden.org/en/info-norden/guide-moving-norway
Looks like it’s a lot easier since it’s from another nordic country.
Don’t be discouraged, this is a solved problem. What you can do is work through an “employer of record” company.
They are companies that facilitate remote workers all over the world by providing a local presence and taking care of all the legal and tax requirements for the employer.
The one I have experience with is called Deel, they operate in Norway and everything has been extremely smooth. A far as I know this is the easiest and most straight forward way to work remotely for a foreign company from Norway
ENK is the way to do it.