Incorrectly collected court fees
The Tax Administration may in some cases have forcibly collected court fees incorretly. We’ll refund any court fee that has not been collected correctly.
These are funds that the Tax Administration could have been entitled to but since we have not handled this properly, we’ll correct the mistake and refund the amount. The debt itself has been collected in the correct way. It’s only the collection of court fees that has not always been handled correctly.
Cases from the past three years
If the Tax Administration has sent your case to the district court or the enforcement officer during the last three years, you do not need to do anything. You’ll receive a letter from us if we discover that an error was made in your case. The Tax Administration will refund the incorrectly collected court fee by the end of March 2025 at the latest.
If the case is older than three years
If the Tax Administration sent your case to the district court or the enforcement officer more than three years ago, you’ll have to submit a claim for compensation yourself. You must document your claim.
Important information
Please call us on (+47) 22 07 70 30 if you have questions.
When do we collect court fees
In cases where individuals or businesses have not paid their debt, the Tax Administration can start enforcement proceedings, for example, by placing attachments on your residential property. If the Tax Administration wants to conduct a forced sale of your asset, we have to submit a request to the enforcement officer or district court and pay a court fee (case costs). As a general rule, the Tax Administration has the right to claim this court fee from the person who has not paid their debt.
The Tax Administration may claim reimbursement of our case costs in the request submitted to the enforcement officer or district court. A clear decision from the enforcement officer or district court must be provided in order to forcibly collect the court fee. The error that has been found is it that the Tax Administration has not always been clear in claiming reimbursement of our case costs. As a result, the Tax Administration has in some cases collected court fees without an explicit decision from the enforcement officer or the district court. The size of the fee is from NOK 500 to NOK 9,500.