TAXES

General tax consultancy

Tax law is en extremely fast changing area with a lot of new rules, interpretation and practice. We keep ourselves carefully updated on this terrain, our aim is to provide effective advice and to avoid surprises. You are welcome to seek our advice without regard if we provide bookkeeping services to your company or not, the most sensitive areas are traditionally rules pertaining dividend and capital profit as well as VAT questions. VAT issues have become a lot more complicated than before, we constantly strive to follow both the EU perspective and the domestic developments.

Tax planning

There are a number of tools that may be used to reduce tax effectively according to Swedish bookkeeping rules. We may have recourse to allocation to accrual fond, access depreciation, allocation to pension foundation, internal sale and purchase of stocks, packaging of assets, shell companies etc. To make it even more complicated even if you achieve a relatively low tax today the long term outcome might not be so favorable, there are many factors to take into account.

International tax issues

These matters can be of particular interest if you are a foreign entrepreneur in Sweden. How to deal with international VAT matters, how to deal with your overseas branch that owns your Swedish company or is owned by your Swedish company? Where do your employees pay taxes if they spend a certain amount of time in Sweden and in your home country as well ? How to best take advantage of double taxation agreements to achieve the best possible outcome? After careful consideration and knowing all the necessary circumstances we help you with such and similar issues.

Changing the company form

The most common case to change company form in Sweden is to transform a private entrepreneurship to a joint - stock company or a general partnership. It also happens that general partnerships are made to joint - stock companies, all these transformations may be extremely complicated tax wise and legally. Its essential to precisely follow the rules, we advise you on the most important advantages and disadvantages of the respective company forms.

Tax proceedings

We consider that an often unavoidable part of managing a company is to come in contact - and conflict - with tax authorities that often have different perceptions and interpretations. We have valuable expertise in discretionary assessment of taxes, we gladly help you with proceedings before the tax authority or administrative courts. We can help you to manage the communication with these authorities, respond to their inquiries, file statements and appeals. Did you know that in certain cases one can get full reimbursement for the costs of your representative in these proceeding irrespectively of the outcome of the case?