Sweden

Paying Taxes in

Sweden

Listed below is a detailed summary of the taxes and mandatory contributions that a medium-size company must pay or withhold in a given year, as well as measures of administrative burden in paying taxes.

The information appearing on this page was collected as part of the Doing Business project, which measures and compares regulations relevant to the life cycle of a small- to medium-sized domestic business in 183 economies. The most recent round of data collection for the project was completed in December 2010.

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Tax or mandatory contribution Payments (number) Notes on Payments Time (hours) Statutory tax rate Tax base Total tax rate (% profit) Notes on TTR
Payroll tax 1 paid jointly 36 31.42% gross salaries 35.5
Corporate income tax 1 online filing 50 26.3% taxable profits 15.7
Fuel tax 1 SEK 4.16 per liter 1.1
Real estate tax 0 paid jointly 0 0.5% assessed property value 0.6
Value added tax (VAT) 1 online filing 36 25.0% value added not included
Totals: 4 122 52.8
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