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May 28, 2012
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Sweden's population nears 9.5 million
Society: 18 Feb 11
Sweden's population continued to grow at the end of 2010, despite a drop in immigration for the first time since 2004.
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Parents fined by tax board for nameless son
Society: 20 Jul 10
The Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) has fined a couple 6,000 kronor ($816.25) for failing to give their 16-month-old son a name.
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Sweden eases name restrictions
Society: 13 Aug 08
Swedish authorities are to relax restrictions preventing adults from taking "inappropriate" names. Religious and sexual terms remain off limits but Metallica is fine.
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Swedish alcohol monopoly down the hatch
Analysis & Opinion: 6 Jun 08
Mark Majzner looks at how two landmark EU decisions have affected the alcohol retail trade in Sweden.
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Elvis no name for a girl
Society: 4 Jun 08
Swedish tax authorities have informed a couple in Stockholm that they may not keep the name Elvis for their five-month old daughter.
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Debt agency makes spacewalk seem like a cakewalk
National: 17 Mar 08
A simple drive around Stockholm nearly two years ago continues to cause headaches for Sweden’s first astronaut, Christer Fuglesang.
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Papers push back on papa payments
Analysis & Opinion: 29 Feb 08
David Landes looks at press reaction to the Moderate Party's suggestion of additional incentives designed to ease the ability of fathers to stay home and care for their children.
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100 Swedes in Liechtenstein tax probe
Business & Money: 26 Feb 08
Sweden's tax authorities are claiming to have acquired information about some 100 Swedes with bank accounts in Liechtenstein.
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Financial crimes hit record levels
Business & Money: 22 Feb 08
The Economic Crimes Bureau held more people to account in 2007 than in any previous year.
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Government accused of rushing controversial proposals
National: 13 Feb 08
Agencies affected by new proposals are rarely given the full 90 days to comment.
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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.
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Lassie trumps Lasse as girl's name
Society: 14 Dec 07
Sweden's tax board has barred a family in Västervik from giving their daughter the middle name Lasse.
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Underground clubs raided in Malmö
National: 1 Dec 07
Malmö police on Friday night raided several underground clubs in Sweden’s third largest city.
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Firms learn to like Swedish tax system
Business & Money: 28 Nov 07
Increasing numbers of Swedish companies are shedding their aversion to the tax system.
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Police swoop on illegal gambling dens
Society: 13 Nov 07
Police made multiple arrests on Tuesday in connection with nationwide raids on suspected illegal gambling operations.
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Massive tax bill for Swedish porn king
National: 20 Oct 07
Swedish porn magnate Berth Milton has been ordered to pay back taxes for ten years in which he claimed he was not resident in the country. The total could amount to 650 million kronor.
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Unregistered students cost councils millions
Society: 26 Aug 07
With millions of kronor at stake, university towns are calling for students to register themselves in the area rather than remaining registered in their home towns.
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Web spider to hunt tax dodgers
Science & Technology: 14 Jul 07
In a windowless room in a Gothenburg office block Maria Larsson sits in front of the Swedish tax board's new secret weapon: a special computer programme which will hunt tax dodgers in cyberspace.
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Tax board targets Swedish poker sites
National: 7 Jul 07
Sweden's tax board is to launch a special programme targeting hundreds of web sites earning money from poker and gaming. The board expects to recover millions of kronor in undeclared revenue.
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Online booze shops refuse to cooperate with tax board
Business & Money: 29 Jun 07
A number of suppliers of online alcohol have indicated that they will not release details of their customer's transactions after the tax board announced it would track down people who hadn't paid their alcohol tax.
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Tax board tracks down online booze shoppers
Society: 28 Jun 07
The Swedish tax board has decided to chase down people who have purchased alcohol online but failed to pay the necessary taxes. People can be hit with fines up to six years after importing the drinks.
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Swedish Customs lets online booze through
Society: 9 Jun 07
Swedish Customs has stopped confiscating alcohol that is imported via the internet by private people, according to the head of the agency's crime unit.
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Electronic tax returns beat deadline
Business & Money: 2 May 07
Electronic tax returns are the new black. More Swedes than ever before have shunned paper when sending in their annual returns.
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Tax returns streaming in to TV4 hotline
Society: 27 Apr 07
B careful b4 sending tax returns via sms. U cud b giving ur tax info 2 tv4. Get it rite now r pay l8r! And if you don't understand that, stick to the paper form.
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Baby Metallica allowed to keep her name
Society: 19 Apr 07
Authorities in Gothenburg have withdrawn their opposition to the parents of a 7-month-old girl who want to call their daughter Metallica. "It feels good," the youngster's mother says.
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Swede changes name to James Bond
Society: 5 Apr 07
Forget Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Daniel Craig: Gunnar Schäfer is the new James Bond. And his interest stretches a lot further than the Bond museum he runs in Nybro.
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Tax board not happy with Metallica
Society: 3 Apr 07
The Swedish tax board has appealed a court ruling allowing a baby girl to be given the name Metallica. It sounds too much like a heavy metal band, they say.
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'My name means penis'
Society: 30 Mar 07
A woman with an unpronounceable name was appalled to find that the new name she had chosen for herself was also a slang term for the male genitalia. But now she might be stuck with it.
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Woman forced to pay income tax on prostitution
National: 27 Mar 07
A Stockholm-based prostitute has lost her appeal to avoid paying tax and VAT on sexual services.
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Transvestite prevented from changing name
National: 20 Mar 07
Lennart Widahr tried to change his name to Pia. But the tax board refused to register the name change on the grounds that Pia is too feminine a name for a man.
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More than ever living with protected identities
Society: 18 Mar 07
'Honour-related' threats and threats against witnesses are behind a dramatic rise in the number of people in Sweden living with secret identities. And over a third of them are under 18.
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January pay packets set to swell
National: 24 Jan 07
Payday at last! It will be smiles all round on Friday as the post-Christmas blues finally come to an end. And this month there is an extra reason to be cheerful as the government's new tax deduction takes effect.
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Volvo suffers further tax blow
Business & Money: 11 Jan 07
Volvo Cars had just begun contemplating its 780 million kronor bill for back taxes when the tax authorities decided to almost double it.
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Major tax blow for Volvo Cars
Business & Money: 10 Jan 07
Following a year-long investigation, the Swedish tax authorities have decided that Volvo Cars owes 780 million kronor in unpaid taxes.
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More tax woes for ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus
National: 4 Jan 07
Last year Swedish authorities demanded 87 million kronor in unpaid taxes from former ABBA member Björn Ulvaeus. Now they want 16 million more.
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Snoop site removes last four digits
National: 27 Nov 06
It's the site where you can find out exactly how much your neighbour, boss, or friends earned last year. Ratsit.se has bowed to pressure and stopped revealing people's full ID numbers - but a call to the Tax Board will still reveal all.
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'Make golf tax deductible' say MPs
Business & Money: 7 Nov 06
Folk dancing, massage, gymnastics and yoga - all these sports are tax deductible. But golf, riding and sailing are thought a bit too posh, so are not. Now MPs are demanding a change.
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Borg admits paying cleaner cash-in-hand
Politics: 17 Oct 06
Finance minister Anders Borg has admitted that he employed a cleaner without declaring the arrangement to the tax board. "I have made a serious mistake which I regret," he says.
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Pressure grows on Swedish trade minister
Politics: 13 Oct 06
The storm surrounding the personal finances of Swedish trade minister Maria Borelius continued to blow fiercely on Friday, as it emerged that she risks being fined for irregularities in a share deal.
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Swedish tax board attacks taxi tax dodge
Business & Money: 11 Oct 06
Loss of income stemming from tax evasion in the taxi industry amounts to 1.5-2 billion kronor per year, according to an investigation carried out by the National Tax Board.
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Ministers admit nanny tax dodges
Politics: 7 Oct 06
In a perfect advertisement for government tax breaks on domestic services such as childcare and cleaning, two new ministers have admitted employing nannies without declaring the tax.
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Cheats claim 20 percent of child sickness benefit
Society: 26 Sep 06
Fraudulent claims of financial support for the care of sick children are more widescale than previously thought, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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"This is the Right's big chance"
Analysis & Opinion: 15 Sep 06
Swedish author Johan Norberg tells The Local’s Paul O’Mahoney that if the Alliance loses on Sunday, Sweden's Right may be out of power for another decade.
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Tax board queries June List leader's property deal
Politics: 12 Sep 06
The leader of the June List, Nils Lundgren, has earned almost two million kronor through buying and selling his house five times, Dagens Nyheter has reported. "Everyone does it," he said.
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Police identify key names behind Swedish organised crime
National: 10 Sep 06
Swedish police have pinpointed 100 'particularly interesting' people in the fight against organised crime.
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Compensation for girl 'who didn't exist'
Society: 9 Sep 06
A four year old girl in Söderhamn has been given compensation by the Swedish state after her parents discovered that she didn't get a personal number when she was born.
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Living woman declared dead by Swedish tax board
Society: 10 Aug 06
For the second time in a month, a bureaucratic blunder has led to a woman being declared dead, despite the fact that she wasn't. This time the administrative grim reaper was the Tax Board.
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Asylum seekers in Kiruna suicide threat
Smörgåsbord: 10 Jul 06
A couple from Turkey seeking asylum in Sweden threatened to set themselves on fire in the Board of Migration's offices in Kiruna on Monday. After all-day negotiations they gave themselves up.
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X is no name for a baby boy
Society: 19 May 06
A Stockholm couple who wanted to name their new-born son X have had their plans blocked by the administrative court.
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Abba's Björn accused of 87m kronor tax fiddle
Smörgåsbord: 28 Apr 06
Former Abba member Björn Ulvaeus is facing a bill of 87 million kronor in back taxes, interest and charges from the Swedish Tax Board, which has accused him of 'laundering' his music income through an offshore tax haven.
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Swedish PM underpaid rent
Politics: 21 Apr 06
Swedish prime minister Göran Persson has been paying 7,000 kronor a month less than he should have been for his private apartment in his official residence, following a valuation error.
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Swedish tax probe into foreign-owned firms
Business & Money: 19 Apr 06
The Swedish Tax Board is to investigate Swedish companies which are owned by companies abroad in an attempt - usually successful - to reduce tax they pay in Sweden.
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Top Moderate quits post after tax 'error'
Politics: 5 Apr 06
The vice chairman of the Moderate Party resigns from two posts after filing 'incorrect claims for private living costs' at the tax office. I made a mistake, says Gunilla Carlsson.
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'University of crime' opens in Linköping
Society: 3 Apr 06
A research centre dedicated to the fight against crime opens in Linköping on Tuesday. Sex crime, economic crime, child abuse and leadership are amongst the subjects to be studied.
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Swedes "comfortable avoiding tax"
Society: 21 Nov 05
Swedes' willingness to pay high taxes is perhaps not as heartfelt as previously thought: according to new research every third Swede has bought services cash-in-hand, avoiding the tax, in the last twelve months.
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Ringholm's club in tax turmoil
Politics: 18 Oct 05
The football club Enskede IK, withheld 950,000 kronor in taxation during the period 2000-2004. At the time their chairman was none other than finance minister (and now Deputy Prime Minister) Bosse Ringholm.
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Swedes anticipate tax refund bonanza
Society: 3 Aug 05
Like an unofficial savings scheme, Swedes tend to overpay their taxes and then eagerly await the refund six months later. Now they are bracing their wallets for 12.6 billion kronor back from the tax office, starting this week.
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Insurance premiums to rise following storm damage
Smörgåsbord: 21 Jan 05
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Ringholm urged to pay tax on summerhouse
Smörgåsbord: 16 Sep 04
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Tax man steals millions
Business & Money: 13 Aug 04
Nothing unusual about that, you might say, except that this one took the cash for himself. And the authorities clamp down on banned business people after one man clocks up over 100 bankruptcies.
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Meet Sanna, 9 years old
Sanna is one of 2 million people in Sweden under the age of 18. Sweden is seen as a good place to grow up. The law makes sure children are well-protected and defends their rights and any organizations work with children's well-being. Read more »
Strindberg, king of drama
August Strindberg's plays shocked society, dazzled audiences and revolutionized drama. A century after his death, Strindberg, with his powerful, timeless themes, is celebrated around the world. Read more »
The story of K Composite Magazine »
"I’m working on a couple long articles which will be posted here soon. While those are in the works, I thought I’d share this article and interview about my magazine, K Composite, which was recently published on the site Design-Milk.com. Enjoy! Scott Ritcher launched his now digitally glossy mag, K Composite, back when Macs were used..." READ »
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