List of ministers for taxation (Denmark)

This is a list of tax ministers of Denmark since 1975. The collection of taxes was originally assumed by the Finance Ministry. The Finance Ministry's Department of Taxes and Customs (Skatte- og Tolddepartementet) was elevated to the rank of an independent ministry on 13 February 1975. It has officially been referred to as the Tax Ministry (Skatteministeriet) since 10 September 1987.

List of ministers

No.	Portrait	Name (born–died)	Term of office			Political party		Government	Ref.
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Minister for Taxation and Duties (Minister for skatter og afgifter)
1		Svend Jakobsen (1935–2022)	13 February 1975	26 February 1977	2 years, 13 days		Social Democrats	Jørgensen II	[1]
2		Jens Kampmann [da] (born 1937)	26 February 1977	30 August 1978	1 year, 185 days		Social Democrats	Jørgensen II	[1]
3		Anders Ejnar Andersen (1912–2006)	30 August 1978	26 October 1979	1 year, 57 days		Venstre	Jørgensen III	[2]
4		Karl Hjortnæs [da] (born 1934)	26 October 1979	20 January 1981	1 year, 86 days		Social Democrats	Jørgensen IV	[3]
5		Mogens Lykketoft (born 1946)	20 January 1981	10 September 1982	1 year, 233 days		Social Democrats	Jørgensen IV–V	[3][4]
6		Isi Foighel [da] (1927–2007)	10 September 1982	10 September 1987	5 years, 0 days		Conservatives	Schlüter I	[5]
Minister for Taxation (Skatteminister)
7		Anders Fogh Rasmussen (born 1953)	10 September 1987	19 November 1992	5 years, 70 days		Venstre	Schlüter II–III–IV	[6][7][8]
8		Peter Brixtofte (1949–2016)	19 November 1992	25 January 1993	67 days		Venstre	Schlüter IV	[8]
9		Ole Stavad (born 1949)	25 January 1993	1 November 1994	1 year, 280 days		Social Democrats	P. N. Rasmussen I	[9]
10		Carsten Koch (born 1945)	1 November 1994	23 March 1998	3 years, 142 days		Social Democrats	P. N. Rasmussen II–III	[10][11]
9		Ole Stavad (born 1949)	23 March 1998	21 December 2000	2 years, 273 days		Social Democrats	P. N. Rasmussen IV	[12]
11		Frode Sørensen (born 1946)	21 December 2000	27 November 2001	341 days		Social Democrats	P. N. Rasmussen IV	[12]
12		Svend Erik Hovmand (born 1945)	27 November 2001	2 August 2004	2 years, 249 days		Venstre	A. F. Rasmussen I	[13]
13		Kristian Jensen (born 1971)	2 August 2004	24 February 2010	5 years, 206 days		Venstre	A. F. Rasmussen I–II–III L. L. Rasmussen I	[13][14] [15][16]
14		Troels Lund Poulsen (born 1974)	24 February 2010	8 March 2011	1 year, 12 days		Venstre	L. L. Rasmussen I	[16]
15		Peter Christensen (born 1975)	8 March 2011	3 October 2011	209 days		Venstre	L. L. Rasmussen I	[16]
16		Thor Möger Pedersen [da] (born 1985)	3 October 2011	16 October 2012	1 year, 222 days		Green Left	Thorning-Schmidt I	[17]
17		Holger K. Nielsen (born 1950)	16 October 2012	12 December 2013	1 year, 57 days		Green Left	Thorning-Schmidt I	[17]
18		Jonas Dahl (born 1978)	12 December 2013	30 January 2014	49 days		Green Left	Thorning-Schmidt I	[17]
19		Morten Østergaard (born 1976)	3 February 2014	2 September 2014	215 days		Social Liberals	Thorning-Schmidt II	[18]
20		Benny Engelbrecht (born 1970)	2 September 2014	28 June 2015	299 days		Social Democrats	Thorning-Schmidt II	[18]
21		Karsten Lauritzen (born 1983)	28 June 2015	27 June 2019	3 years, 364 days		Venstre	L. L. Rasmussen II–III	[19][20]
22		Morten Bødskov (born 1970)	27 June 2019	4 February 2022	2 years, 222 days		Social Democrats	Frederiksen I	[21]
23		Jeppe Bruus (born 1978)	4 February 2022	29 August 2024	2 years, 207 days		Social Democrats	Frederiksen I–II	[21][22]
24		Rasmus Stoklund (born 1984)	29 August 2024	Incumbent	114 days		Social Democrats	Frederiksen II	[22]

References

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