Tax registration
Registering your Swedish company with Skatteverket for F-tax, VAT and employer obligations.
- What it is
- Registration for corporate tax status, VAT and employer withholding.
- Who needs it
- Any Swedish company or branch that invoices, sells or employs here.
- Registered with
- Skatteverket
- Fixed fee
- SEK 7,500
Registration with Bolagsverket creates the company. It does not let you trade. Three separate registrations with Skatteverket do that, and they are commonly handled as an afterthought by companies that then cannot invoice.
The three registrations
F-tax approval establishes that your company accounts for its own tax and social contributions. Swedish customers check for it. Without it, a business customer paying you may be obliged to withhold, which in practice means Swedish counterparties are reluctant to engage you at all.
VAT registration is required once you make taxable supplies in Sweden above the registration threshold, and is often advisable below it so that input VAT can be recovered.
Employer registration is required before your first Swedish salary payment, and brings monthly PAYE reporting with it.
What we do
- Determine which registrations your activity actually triggers
- Prepare and file the applications with Skatteverket
- Respond to Skatteverket's queries, which are common for foreign-owned companies
- Confirm registration and explain the reporting cycle that follows
Ongoing bookkeeping, payroll and annual accounts are accounting work, not legal work. We do not provide them, and we will introduce you to a provider we work with rather than scope ourselves into a service someone else does better.