Are you aware of all the moves you can make on the tax? There is a lot of advice ahead of the imminent declaration, but the fact is that you can probably ignore most of the advice, according to economic reporter Alexander Piauger.
– The vast, vast majority do not need to keep track of 70 deductions or worry about how to “max out”, he writes in an economic analysis in Göteborgs-Posten.
Travel deductions, housing deductions, installation of green electricity, work trips, pension savings, moving costs.
The list goes on. But in reality, most people cannot make the majority of all the deductions listed by various experts and media in the weeks before the declaration notice dims down. This is written by Göteborgs-Posten’s economics reporter Alexander Piauger in analysis in GP.
“One could get the impression that it is complicated to declare, that the person who is “in the know” could conjure up a few extra thousand for the holiday. That’s not true, he writes and lists how simple the process actually is for the vast majority of Swedes:
• You will receive an email, SMS or tax form from the Swedish Tax Agency
• You log in and look through your data or look at your papers
• You sign with your bank ID or send in a physical form
Most common deductions are pre-filled
Furthermore, he believes that the most common deductions Swedes make are root-root and interest deductions. Deductions that take place automatically and thus nothing the individual needs to think about himself.
“Of course, there are exceptional cases as well. You may be an entrepreneur, have sold a home or live in such a way that you earn more than two hours a day by taking the car to work, he writes, but believes that the process in many other countries is significantly more complicated than in Sweden.
In Germany, for example, you must state whether you are single, divorced or a parent, and your tax also depends on how much your possible better half earns. In France, different declaration dates apply depending on where in the country you live and you also have to keep track of how much tax you have to pay at the end of the year – and in the US it is so complicated that many hire a tax expert for their declaration , writes Alexander Piauger and believes that the more complicated the system is, the greater the risk for tax evaders who see all the loopholes.
So sit back and wait calmly for the refund – or the joy of NOT getting anything back on the tax.
– It is usually just a matter of logging in, checking that it looks okay, pressing the button and feeling a small but not insignificant joy that the infrastructure, for once, works perfectly in the Kingdom of Sweden.