Tax law is an extremely fast changing area with a lot of new rules, interpretations and practices. We keep ourselves carefully updated on this terrain, our aim is to provide effective advice and avoid surprises. You are welcome to seek our advice without regard to whether we provide bookkeeping services to your company or not. The most sensitive areas are traditionally rules pertaining to dividend and capital profit as well as VAT questions. VAT issues have become a lot more complicated than before, and we constantly strive to follow both the EU perspective and the domestic developments.
Corporate tax matters : 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 and double tax treaties : 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.
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, and we gladly help you with proceedings before the tax authority or administrative courts. We can help you manage communication with these authorities, respond to their inquiries, file statements and appeals.
Should we feel that our expertise does not suffice in a particular area, we seek guidance from tax consultants and tax lawyers in our partner network. We have established cooperation with a number of such actors over the years, and together we strive to achieve the best outcome for the client.