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Electronics tax – new calculated tax rates
In previous years, the new tax rates and ceiling limits for the LSKE tax (electronics tax on white goods and home electronics) for the coming year have been presented very close to the turn of the year by the Swedish Tax Agency. The background is the annual increase with the CPI, which the Riksdag decided on earlier. The decision that the Riksdag took on 26 October concerned the proposal for a further increase of 2 percent on […]
Swedish Board of Housing, Building and Planning: Race for housing construction next year
The National Board of Housing, Building and Planning delivers a gloomy forecast regarding new housing production in the coming years. Total investments in housing, premises and facilities in Sweden are expected to shrink by almost ten percent next year, which is comparable to the figures from the financial crisis in 2009 when they fell by approximately 12%. Diagram: Housing starts including net additions through renovation, with uncertainty intervalSource: […]
Chairman's reflection after announcement about the electronics tax
Today the government's first budget after the Tidö Agreement was presented. In opposition, the Moderates and the Sweden Democrats had promised to abolish the Electronics Tax upon a change of government, a promise that now looks set to be broken with today's budget announcement. Read APPLiA chairman Kent Oderud's reflections after the announcement below. Despite years of criticism from the current government parties and its supporting party against the electronics tax […]
Continued strong focus on skills supply
The supply of skills is an important issue for our entire industry and Applia has long been a driving force in these. As the initiator of the YH training for service technicians, we were pleased that over 90% obtained jobs after the training, but our work does not end there. Over the past 15 years, Applia has worked actively with schools and authorities to create […]
APPLiA and the Electronics Industry debate in the Althingi
A tax with no environmental impact and which is strongly inflationary, partly due to its design, and partly because the tax has been annually increased based on the CPI for a few years now. Abolishing the electronics tax would therefore also serve as an anti-inflation measure. Today we will find out whether the government is delivering on its promises! Read the full […]
Guest writer: New student support could be the solution to the skills issue
On October 1, a new state student aid for skills development was introduced. The Technical Companies' Head of Skills Supply, Frida Andersson, believes that the new student aid for transition could be one of the solutions to skills supply for industry. Read her reasoning below. Skills supply has been the biggest obstacle to growth for Swedish companies for many years. 8 out of 10 industrial companies state that their company's operations have been affected by […]
VAT – an obstacle to a circular society
Changed handling of VAT could be the key to increased circular handling of white goods and electronics. This is according to APPLiA chairman Kent Oderud. Read the full reasoning below. VAT – value added tax – the handling of this could be a key to more circular behavior among citizens in our society. On the one hand, we all want to increase the frequency of repairs instead […]
Market control – a necessity not only for fair competition between companies
Market surveillance contributes to the UN's global goal no. 12 on sustainable consumption and production. Its task is to ensure health, safety, and consumer protection. Swedac is responsible for coordination between the Swedish authorities that conduct market surveillance. Coordination is primarily carried out through the Market Surveillance Council, where APPLiA and other business stakeholders participate in reference groups. Market surveillance can take the form of planned inspections […]
Christmas Gift of the Year 2022 – an industry product?
On November 17, HUI Research will present the Christmas Gift of the Year, for the 35th year in a row! Applia is keeping its fingers crossed that this year it will be a product from our industry. Designating the Christmas Gift of the Year and forecasting the turnover in the upcoming Christmas shopping season is a tradition that HUI Research has carried out since 1988, when the baking machine was awarded the honor. After that […]
Black Friday – horror or success this year?
Speculation about how this year's Black Friday will turn out in our own industry and in other industries is hotly debated among experts, opinion leaders and the media. Among companies in the retail sector, there is great excitement about how consumers will react to the expected price increases from the various players. Applianytt has therefore asked around and checked what […]
What is expected from the last quarter of 2022 in the industry?
If 2020 was the pandemic year that made us change our consumption patterns, then 2021 was the year characterized by logistics chaos and component shortages but also record growth in our industry. Now 2022 will probably be the year that will be characterized by total chaos. Inflation is rising. The krona is weakening. Energy prices are skyrocketing. Less space for consumption. And now we are already in the fourth […]
The Riksdag votes no to adjustment of the electronics tax
”First step towards abolishing the electronics tax” – this is how APPLiA Sweden’s chairman Kent Oderud comments on the Riksdag’s decision to stop the GDP indexation of the electronics tax at the turn of the year. The Swedish Riksdag decided today, Wednesday, October 26, to reject the previous government’s proposal to add a two percent extra index increase to the electronics tax, on top of the already rolling inflation-based annual increase, […]
