This year’s sale of May flowers is over. For eleven-year-old Murhaf Hamid, the sale ended at a total of SEK 5,002,655, reports P4 Kristianstad.
Murhaf Hamid received attention both in Sweden and internationally after a post about how he was treated when he tried to sell in public places went viral. In just a few days, sales rose to several 100,000. And then it rolled on.
Sellers of the Mayflower get to keep a ten percent commission, a sum so large that Murhaf Hamid will have to pay taxes for it. In practice, it is Mayblomman who pays the tax for the sale before they pay out the commission as a salary.