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KEY DATES: The deadlines you need to know for Swedish tax season

It's time to start thinking about your Swedish tax returns. When and how you file your taxes impacts when you get any rebate, so here are a few key deadlines to keep in mind.

Published: 1 March 2023 14:21 CET
Updated: 6 March 2023 14:15 CET

KEY DATES: The deadlines you need to know for Swedish tax season

If you miss Sweden's first tax deadline, you may not get your rebate until summer. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT

Anyone who earned above 20,431 kronor during 2022 needs to declare their income tax. You will most likely receive a tax declaration by post or in your digital mailbox if you need to declare, but check the Tax Agency’s website if you’re not sure. Below you’ll find some of the key dates to be aware of.

March 5th was the final date to create a so-called digital mailbox (digital brevlåda), which means you receive your declaration digitally rather than as a paper form sent through the post.

EXPLAINED: How do I get a Swedish digital mailbox?

Between March 6th and 10th, those with digital mailboxes receive their declarations.

From March 10th, those with a digital e-ID can log in to skatteverket.se and see their declaration.

March 14th is the first date for declaring your taxes digitally. If you have a digital e-ID, you can log in to the Tax Agency’s website and fill out your declaration.

The paper declaration will be sent out between March 15th and April 15th.

March 30th is the deadline to submit your declaration online in order to receive a tax refund in April. If no changes needed to be made, people submitting it online by this date will receive any refund between April 5th and 6th.

Even if you receive the paper version, you can still fill it in digitally. The overall deadline for declaration submission is May 2nd. Everyone who met this deadline will receive any tax refund they are entitled to by June 9th.

If you on the other hand had residual tax to pay, you have to pay it by September 12th, unless it’s less than 100 kronor in which case you can put off paying it until the tax declaration season of 2024.

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Are Swedish supermarkets going to freeze food prices?

Prices will be cut on average by 11 percent, Lidl said.

“We have chosen a large number of popular products which we will give a lower standard price. These measures will cost money, but we are prepared to face that cost and do what it takes to support Swedish households in these times of financial challenges,” Lidl’s Sweden chief Jakob Josefsson said in a press statement.

Household grocery bills are soaring in Sweden, as The Local has previously reported. Prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages last month rose 21 percent year-on-year, the biggest increase since the 1950s, eclipsing even the high-inflation years of the 70s.

“I hope the large food giants will follow [Lidl’s] example,” Sweden’s finance minister, Elisabeth Svantesson, tweeted.

“I think that these three food giants, which represent 90 percent of the market, can put some pressure on their suppliers,” Svantesson said. “Of course they can do that. Lidl is leading the way now.”

Svantesson did not rule out meeting with food producers and suppliers, but she sees focusing on the larger chains as a higher priority as they have the ability to put pressure on other actors further down the line.

In France, supermarket Carrefour decided to lower its prices earlier in March, and Kiwi in Norway has decided to do the same. In Sweden, however, Lidl is the only company to do so. Lidl’s market share in Sweden is between 5 and 6 percent.

Price freezes at other supermarkets unlikely

However, it looks like the other major supermarket companies – Coop, Axfood and Ica – don’t have plans to lower prices any time soon.

Sweden’s Coop supermarket said on Wednesday evening that they won’t be following Lidl’s lead.

“We adjust our prices when we get price adjustments from our suppliers,” Coop’s press secretary Marcus Björling told TT newswire. “We can see multiple items on their way down and expect therefore to see our suppliers dropping prices.”

“Our assessment is that we’re going to see lowered prices in some categories going forward.”

Axfood, which owns the Willys and Hemköp supermarkets, is not planning on any price freezes either, stating instead that they are planning more long-term.

“It’s a much more active price market at the moment, and that’s why we’re so clear that our long-term goal with Willys is to work on offering Sweden’s cheapest bag of groceries – across all products, not just a few individual items,” Axfood’s CEO Klas Balkow told TT on Wednesday night.

Ica’s CEO, Eric Lundberg, told TT that the supermarket were working hard to put pressure on suppliers to lower prices.

“[Lidl’s price drops] show how hard competition is at the moment, all actors are doing what they can to win customers. At Ica, we are working on price changes across the board, further offers for our Stammis customers and campaigns in individual stores.”

He added that “everyone at Ica” is working hard to put pressure on suppliers, through negotiations and through lessening price increases centrally and in stores.”

“We can see signs that price increases will start to slow down on multiple items throughout the spring,” Lundberg said.

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