Every year the Swedish Tax Agency issues various invitations and information. Often it revolves around important dates for you as a private person to keep an extra eye on.
However, a recurring event during the year is the flow of information when they update the declaration. Depending on when you received your final tax statement and declared it determines if and when you will receive any refund paid.
In 2024, the authority started the first payments to those who were waiting for a tax refund as early as April. After that, those who made changes or additions received the payment in June instead.
However, not everyone gets a tax refund, but instead is forced to pay residual tax. And then it is not just the Swedish Tax Agency that informs and invites the public. The Kronofogden also does the same.
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650,000 people must pay residual tax
Depending on when the final tax notice arrived in your mailbox, it may soon be time to have paid the residual tax to the Swedish Tax Agency.
On Thursday 12 September, 650,000 people should have paid the money into the authority. A third of them are over 65 years of age, they say Private Affairs.
The remaining dates, after September, for when the residual tax must be paid are 12 November and then 12 March 2025 – which applies to those who receive the final tax notice in December 2024.
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Bailiff: Pay by September 12 at the latest
As hundreds of thousands of people are now said to have sent in the money, the Kronofogden issues a strong call to all those affected.
“Don’t forget to pay your back taxes. Thursday 12 September is an important date for you who have to pay back taxes – then the money should be in the Swedish Tax Agency’s account,” they write on their homepage.
If you only pay the money in on September 12 and the money is not registered in the authority’s account until the following day, you will be issued a reminder.
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Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TTKronofogden: It happens if you don’t pay
The bailiff directs the call to those who must pay now, given the fact that many tend to miss the important date that applies.
“Many people miss the payment and thousands every year have their back taxes handed over to us at the Kronofogden – completely unnecessarily”.
While they urge you to pay on time, they also take the opportunity to inform you of what happens in the event that you do not pay at all.
If the back tax is not paid to the Swedish Tax Agency on time, a reminder is sent out. If you don’t pay then either, the debt is sent on to the Kronofogden. At that stage, you may receive a payment notice in the credit bureaus’ registers.
If the debt ends up with the Kronofogden, the debt increases as a fee of SEK 600 is charged.
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Photo: Henrik Holmberg / TT