Udviklings- og Forenklingsstyrelsen Due Diligence
Run due diligence on Udviklings- og Forenklingsstyrelsen: check compliance and get alerts when suppliers or ownership change.
Denmark · owned by Skatteforvaltningen (Denmark) · ufst.dk · 32 vendors
Udviklings- og Forenklingsstyrelsen is a Danish government agency that ensures well-functioning IT solutions for the entire Tax Administration. The agency is part of Skatteforvaltningen (the Danish Tax Administration) under the Ministry of Taxation.
Resilience scores
- Digital Sovereignty: 28
- Digital Resilience: 5
- Financial Resilience: 9
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Insights
Last updated 2026-09-13 · revision 14
32 direct vendors, 291 subvendors
Direct vendors by controlling owner country (sample)
- Sweden: 2
- Poland: 1
- Japan: 3
Subvendors by controlling owner country (sample)
- Unknown: 1
- France: 8
- Sweden: 11
Compliance
10 in-scope frameworks identified; showing 3.
Danish Databeskyttelsesloven — Evidence found
Evidence: https://ufst.dk/privatlivspolitik, https://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=201319, https://www.datatilsynet.dk/
EU Accessibility Directive — Evidence found
Evidence: https://www.was.digst.dk/ufst-dk, https://ufst.dk/, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32016L2102
Danish Sikkerhedscirkulæret — No public evidence
Evidence: https://ufst.dk/om-styrelsen/vores-opgaver/fakta-om-styrelsen, https://www.retsinformation.dk/, https://pet.dk/
Financials
Three-year financials
- 2023: revenue DKK 3.0B
- 2022: revenue DKK 2.9B
- 2021: revenue DKK 2.75B
Financial Resilience Score: 9/10
Udviklings- og Forenklingsstyrelsen (UFST) is a Danish central government IT agency under the Ministry of Taxation, not a private company. It is fully financed by the Danish state budget through annual appropriations (Finansloven, § 09.21.03), giving it exceptional funding stability. Denmark maintains a AAA sovereign credit rating, so counterparty and credit risk are effectively zero. The agency's financial resilience is therefore tied to the Danish state's fiscal position rather than any commercial performance. UFST holds a strategic mandate as the provider and operator of critical national IT for the entire Danish Tax Administration, including tax collection systems, property valuation IT, customs IT, and digital reporting. This has ensured high political and budgetary priority since the 2018 restructuring of SKAT. With ~1,800 employees, it is one of Denmark's largest public-sector IT organizations. However, UFST carries meaningful operational and reputational risks. It inherited troubled legacy IT programmes from the former SKAT (EFI debt collection, property-valuation IT), which have had significant delays and cost overruns and are regularly scrutinised by Rigsrevisionen. Heavy reliance on external IT vendors (Netcompany, Accenture, KMD, Deloitte, Capgemini) creates procurement and vendor lock-in risks, and the agency competes with the private sector for scarce Danish IT talent under state salary constraints.
Key strengths: Fully funded by Danish state budget (Finansloven), Denmark AAA sovereign credit rating - zero counterparty risk, Strategic mandate as critical national IT provider for Tax Administration, High political and budgetary priority since 2018 SKAT restructuring, Large scale with ~1,800 employees, Stable appropriation-based funding model
Risk factors: Cost overruns on inherited legacy IT programmes (EFI, property valuation), Regular scrutiny from Rigsrevisionen (National Audit Office), Political and parliamentary attention affecting budget stability, Heavy vendor concentration (Netcompany, Accenture, KMD, Deloitte, Capgemini), Procurement risk and vendor lock-in, Talent competition with private sector under state salary constraints
Revenue by geography
- Denmark: 100%
Revenue by product/service
- IT Operations: 40%
- IT Development: 40%
- Procurement and Simplification: 20%
Workforce by country
- Denmark: 1800
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