The Swedes use SMS to file taxes in Sweden |
Tax time is no fun at all. There’s all the paperwork and about a hundred other complications. It isn’t that way in Sweden. To file taxes in Sweden all you have to do is open a new text message, enter your Social Security number and a security code sent to you by mail, and zip it off to the Department of the Treasury.
This is how many Swedish people will file their income taxes in May. They’ve used this system for the last five years. But there’s a catch.
Swedes have to sign a tax declaration that has already been prepared by the country’s tax authority, officially called Skatteverket. It already knows everything about Swedish taxpayers’ income and has all the info. Taxpayers can only sign their forms via text (the number’s 71144) if they accept all the Skatteverket’s calculations…and if they renounce all deductions.
Pretty slick Sweden. It sucks no matter where you live.
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Since swiss people live in Switzerland I have a hard time beliving they are doing their taxes in Sweden.But the swedes on the other hand. I live in Sweden and it works great.
We had that here in Norway as well, but ditched it and now you dont have to file anything at all. If you dont have any changes, you dont have to do anything, the lack of a confirmation means you dont have any changes.