Expat Focused — Deduction Check
A few questions per topic. If you reach a green result, a deduction may have been available to you in current year or an earlier year — and earlier years can still be corrected. Nothing you answer is stored or sent anywhere.
When a topic ends in a green result and you missed to claim the deduction, the next step is a previous year tax correction.
Disclaimer: the results here are not tax advice or a legal opinion. They are indications based only on your answers. An in-depth review of your situation is needed before any deduction is claimed.
Interest on a loan outside Sweden
Loans in another country are often left out of Swedish declarations, because no Swedish bank reports them.
Do you have a loan outside Sweden, in your name, on which you pay interest from your bank account?
In the year you paid that interest, were you tax resident in Sweden — living here and paying Swedish tax?
Deduction may be possible
Interest paid on a loan in your own name can be deductible in Sweden for the years you were tax resident here even the loan is abroad (Depending on the Tax Treaty). Possbile to correct previous year. contact the team for further steps.
Contact the teamNot eligible
Interest is deductible in Sweden only for years in which you were tax resident here, and only on loans in your own name. Nothing to correct on this point.
Not eligible
Interest is deductible in Sweden only for years in which you were tax resident here, and only on loans in your own name. Nothing to correct on this point.
Double accommodation — permanent job in Sweden
Keeping a home in your home country while you work in Sweden can give a deduction for the extra cost of living in two places. It is time-limited, and it depends on why the second home is kept.
Did you move to Sweden alone at first, with your family either following later or staying in your home country?
Do you have a rented or owned home in your home country, with documents to prove it?
Deduction may be possible
The double accommodation deduction covers part of the cost of keeping two places, for a limited period that depends on your family situation. Contact the team for further steps.
Contact the teamNot eligible
The deduction requires a second home that you actually kept. Without that, there is nothing to claim.
Not eligible
The deduction requires a second home that you actually kept. Without that, there is nothing to claim.
Temporary work deduction — ICT visa, PhD or researcher
A time-limited job in Sweden while you keep your home elsewhere can give a deduction for the increased cost of living here.
Do you have a fixed-term contract, or a contract with an end date?
Are you married, and has your family either moved to Sweden with you or stayed in your home country while you keep a rented or owned home there, with documents to prove it?
Deduction may be possible
The temporary work deduction covers increased living costs while you work in Sweden for a limited time and keep your home elsewhere. Contact the team for further steps.
Contact the teamNot eligible
This deduction needs a time-limited job and a genuine home elsewhere that you kept while working here.
Not eligible
This deduction needs a time-limited job and a genuine home elsewhere that you kept while working here.
Capital losses — shares, funds, property, crypto
A loss is deductbile in Swedish declaration, but nothing about a sale abroad is pre-filled, so losses are often simply never claimed.
Did you sell shares, mutual funds, property or crypto at a loss — in Sweden or in another country?
In the year of the sale, were you tax resident in Sweden?
Deduction may be possible
A capital loss can usually be set against capital gains in the same year, For assets in another country, how the loss is treated depends on the tax treaty between Sweden and that country. Earlier years can be corrected. Contact the team for further steps
Contact the teamNot eligible
No loss, or a loss from a year before you were tax resident here, gives nothing to claim in Sweden. If you had gains abroad in a year you lived in Sweden, those still have to be declared.
Not eligible
No loss, or a loss from a year before you were tax resident here, gives nothing to claim in Sweden. If you had gains abroad in a year you lived in Sweden, those still have to be declared.
Home travel — journeys home within Sweden, the EU/EEA or Switzerland
If your work keeps you in one place while your home and family stay in another, the cost of travelling home can be deductible. The conditions are specific, and the journeys are almost never in a pre-filled declaration.
Because of your work, do you stay overnight in a place other than where your home is?
Is the home you travel back to in Sweden, another EU/EEA country or Switzerland?
Did your family stay in that home while you worked away — rather than moving with you and the home being rented out?
Did you actually make the journeys, and can you show the cost — tickets, receipts, or a travel log if you drove?
Deduction may be possible
The home-travel deduction covers the cost of journeys home — normally at most one per week, and normally by the cheapest reasonable means: train and air fares are accepted, a car only where public transport is not a realistic option. The distance between the work location and the home must exceed the limit Skatteverket sets.
Contact the teamNot eligible
This deduction needs an overnight stay at the work location, a home within the EU/EEA or Switzerland that remained your family’s home, and journeys you can document. Without those, there is nothing to claim on this point.
Not eligible
This deduction needs an overnight stay at the work location, a home within the EU/EEA or Switzerland that remained your family’s home, and journeys you can document. Without those, there is nothing to claim on this point.
Not eligible
This deduction needs an overnight stay at the work location, a home within the EU/EEA or Switzerland that remained your family’s home, and journeys you can document. Without those, there is nothing to claim on this point.
Not eligible
This deduction needs an overnight stay at the work location, a home within the EU/EEA or Switzerland that remained your family’s home, and journeys you can document. Without those, there is nothing to claim on this point.
NOTE: Global income from anywhere in the world must also be reported when you are tax resident in Sweden.