Important dates
3 mars: Last day to get a digital mailbox to receive the declaration electronically.
4-8 mars: You who have a digital mailbox will receive your declaration as a pdf file there.
19 mars: The digital declaration opens. Requires e-identification and login to the Tax Agency’s website.
3 april: Last day to approve the declaration digitally, without changes or additions, to get back on the tax in April.
2 maj: Last day to declare.
Important to remember
The most important thing to remember is to be out in good time. Some information, such as the sale of a home, can be prepared even before the Swedish Tax Agency’s e-services open. They are then saved on “my pages” and can be retrieved when it is time to declare.
It can be complicated to calculate yourself how much to declare and which deductions to make.
– Then I recommend our e-services, says Emelie Köhn at the Swedish Tax Agency.
Something else to remember is that you may be obliged to pay tax on any foreign income, which you need to disclose in the declaration.
Most common deduction
The most common deduction is travel to and from work. In the income declaration for 2021, approximately 780,000 people made travel deductions of over SEK 21 billion, the Tax Agency states.
– We know that it often goes wrong when you make that deduction, says Emelie Köhn.
It is important to remember that you can only make a deduction if you have travel costs over 11,000. If you are to make a deduction for trips with your own car, the distance must be at least five kilometers and you also need to make a time gain of at least two hours per day compared to take public transport.
This happens if you forget to declare
If you forget to declare, a reminder is sent that you must submit a declaration.
– If you have received a declaration, you must declare, says Emelie Köhn.
If no declaration is still submitted to the Swedish Tax Agency, they will decide on the tax anyway, according to information the authority has received from, for example, the bank and the employer.
The late fee is SEK 1,250. Depending on how late you are, you may receive one, two or three late fees.
That’s why you get your money back
Whether you get money back or not depends, among other things, on how much tax deductions have been made from the income during the year. Sometimes it is as simple as the tax deducted during the year being greater than the tax you ultimately have to pay.
It can also be the case that, for example, you report capital losses or have large interest expenses that you can deduct from capital.
Therefore, you receive residual tax
A common reason for receiving back taxes is that you have several employers or pension payers and that the tax they deducted during the year is not enough to cover the total tax that you have to pay.
It is also common that the tax deducted during the year has not been enough, if you have made large profits, for example by selling shares or a home.