It had been the state authority under which the Danish Treasury calculated and collected taxes and levied charges.

SKAT was organized into different core units and 30 local tax centers.

From 1 July 2018, Skatteforvaltningen took over the responsibilities of the former SKAT, and Skatteforvaltningen became a group of 7 different tax agencies with specific areas and functions, with the agencies continuing to share the skat.dk website.

In August 2019, a powerful bomb detonated and damaged a tax office building in Copenhagen and one person was wounded by splinters.

Swedish citizens Nurettin Nuray Syuleyman and Zacharias Tamer Hamzi were found guilty by Copenhagen City Court, sentenced to a prison sentence and thereafter permanently banned from returning to Denmark.