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Ex-minister: financial transactions tax 'failed'

Business & Money: 15 Jan 12
In light of the current European debate on a financial transactions tax, former Swedish finance minister Bo Lundgren has spoken out about Sweden's "very negative" experience of implementing the tax in the 1980s. READ »

Sweden acts to curb corporate tax-avoidance

Business & Money: 14 Nov 11
Finance minister Anders Borg announced plans on Monday to close loopholes in the Swedish tax code following criticism that healthcare companies are using complicated schemes to avoid paying taxes in Sweden. READ »

Condemn the Swedish model, not Kamprad

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Feb 11
Rather than denounce Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad, people should instead take aim at the Swedish system that forced him to move the company’s fortunes abroad, argues business school professor Hans Sjögren. READ »

Subaru mulls green car production in Sweden

Business & Money: 31 Jan 11
Japanese carmaker Subaru has announced its desire to start making vehicles in Sweden, possibly at a vacant Saab Automobile facility in western Sweden's Trollhättan. READ »

Olof Palme and Obamania: Swedes' love-hate relationship with the US

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Nov 10
On the eve of the US mid-term elections, libertarian Swedish commentator and author Fredrik Segerfeldt takes a look at the evolution of Swedes' attitudes toward the United States – with some help from one of Sweden’s most revered singer-songwriters. READ »

Taxes on companies still high in Sweden: study

Business & Money: 14 Oct 10
Despite recent cuts to corporate tax rates, Sweden still taxes companies more than many other countries in Europe, a new study shows. READ »

Borg warns against new EU bank tax

Business & Money: 7 Sep 10
Sweden has slammed what is sees as a 'detrimental' proposal for higher taxes on banks in Europe, cautioning on Tuesday that institutions would simply relocate to avoid the charges. READ »

TetraPak billionaire offers Borg unsolicted tax policy advice

Business & Money: 6 May 09
Hans Rausing, the self-exiled Swedish billionaire who founded the TetrPak packaging empire, has taken the liberty of advising finance minister Anders Borg on what he could do to attract more companies to Sweden. READ »

Swedish taxman chases webcam strippers

Business & Money: 8 Apr 09
The Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) doesn't mind if you bare it all online so long as you pay your dues. Skatteverket is now on the hunt for internet strippers who fail to report their income. READ »

High court ruling could hit Sweden's tax revenues

Business & Money: 13 Mar 09
A corporate taxation ruling by Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court could lead to the Swedish state missing out on billions of kronor in tax revenues. READ »

'We need to do more for bank sector': Borg

Politics: 30 Jan 09
Finance Minister Anders Borg spoke on Thursday of the need for Sweden to further bolster the banking sector. READ »

US election watch: The case for McCain

Analysis & Opinion: 30 Oct 08
As Americans everywhere prepare to go to the polls, Swedish politician Mathias Sundin - who spent a month this summer working as a volunteer for John McCain - explains why he’s rooting for the Republican candidate. READ »

Government proposes major tax cut plan

Politics: 16 Sep 08
The government is set to propose 15 billion kronor ($2.2 billion) in tax cuts designed to benefit working Swedes. READ »

Sweden to cut corporate tax rate

Business & Money: 8 Sep 08
The Swedish government announced plans on Monday to introduce 16 billion kronor ($2.4 billion) worth of relief for Swedish business through business tax cuts and a reduction in social fees. READ »

Tax authorities to investigate Swedish-owned firms overseas

Business & Money: 19 Jan 08
Sweden’s National Tax Board suspects some British and Estonian companies exist only to evade taxes. READ »

Court ruling could cost state billions

Politics: 25 Dec 07
A court ruling highlights a corporate tax loophole that could deprive the government of 60 billion kronor in revenues a year. READ »

Kalmar's Chinese market put on ice

Business & Money: 10 Dec 07
Plans for a giant Chinese wholesale market in Kalmar have been put on ice. READ »

Doubts persist as giant Chinese market opens in Kalmar

Business & Money: 26 Sep 07
A giant Chinese wholesale market hoping to attract retailers from across northern Europe opens in Sweden this week, but experts doubt whether merchants will actually flock to the venue. READ »

Economic upswing fills Sweden's coffers

Business & Money: 7 Aug 07
Moody's Investors Service said Sweden's economic upswing in the past three years has contributed to larger-than-expected fiscal surpluses, thanks to strength in income tax receipts and indirect tax buoyancy. READ »

Brisk reforms expected from Reinfeldt

Politics: 24 Sep 06
Analysts expect Sweden's next prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to undertake ambitious reform of the labour market and to gradually sell off the state's shares in companies. READ »

Sweden?s corporate taxes ?above average?

Business & Money: 11 Apr 06
Sweden no longer has low corporate tax rates compared to other EU countries, according to a new survey by KPMG. EU enlargement has reduced the average corporate tax rate in the bloc. READ »

Sweden AB returns a profit for 2005

Politics: 10 Jan 06
With a balance of payments surplus of 13 billion kronor, Sweden has operated at a profit for the first time since 2002. "The Swedish economy is in the middle of a strong upward spiral," says finance minister Pär Nuder. READ »

Sweden: as good as it gets?

Society: 3 Jan 06
It has one of the world's best welfare systems, some of the biggest companies, and some great universities. But Newsweek says Swedes are dissatisfied with the way their country's going. READ »


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12 February 21:30

The consciousness of one »

"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »

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adjective

Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.



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