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This is an argumentative text from Applia's chairman Kent Oderud with the aim of influencing. The government intends to present a climate policy action plan at the end of the year. An ongoing investigation under John Hassler will form the basis for the plan and that investigation will be presented in mid-October this year. The action plan will then be presented every year, so […]

The day before yesterday, the Swedish Tax Agency published data on declared chemical tax for the most recently reported month of July, compared to July of the previous year. It was very interesting reading for us critics of the tax itself and the changes to it that took place on July 1 of this year. You could read about APPLiA's criticism of the change in July here in […]

On July 1, the design of the electronics tax will change and deductions will only be possible if the product does not contain bromine, chlorine or phosphorus. If a substance is additive or reactively added, it will no longer affect the right to a tax deduction. – In practice, this means that in principle all white goods will be taxed 100 percent without the possibility of deduction, as a substitution of […]

Applia is now releasing its annual report in PDF format on how the Act on Tax on Chemicals in Certain Electronics (LSKE, also called the electronics tax) has developed. The tax has been in place for five and a half years. During this time, a total tax levy of 8.5 billion has increased the price of white goods, vacuum cleaners, TVs, computers, mobile phones, game consoles and other electronic […]

This is an argumentative text from Applia's chairman Kent Oderud with the aim of influencing. The Swedish electronics tax was introduced in 2017 with the aim of reducing exposure to flame retardants found in electronics and containing chlorine, bromine and/or phosphorus compounds. Both the Chemicals Inspectorate and the Swedish Tax Agency have concluded in their evaluations of the tax that it has not achieved the […]

On 13 December, the Riksdag adopted the budget bill containing the changes to the electronics tax that had already been announced by the previous government. Prior to that, on 26 October, the Riksdag had said no to an annual over-indexation of 2 percent in addition to the annual CPI indexation that applies to the electronics tax. The parties that voted against the over-indexation also verbally saw the electronics tax as a […]

The new tax rates for the electronics tax (previously included in the government's budget bill) have now been confirmed by the Swedish Tax Agency and are now available on the Swedish Tax Agency's website. These are listed with the CPI index and apply from 1 January 2023 for all taxpayers of this excise tax. The new tax rates: White goods: 12 SEK/kg (previously 11 SEK/kg) Other electronic goods: 181 SEK/kg (previously 166 SEK/kg) Maximum tax amount 497 SEK/item […]

Applia, like most, notes that it is a conservative budget that was presented. The government itself has also described it as austerity. Among other things, they have expressed that the focus of the budget is to support Swedish households and companies and the greatest scope for reform is reduced taxes on gasoline and diesel and increased unemployment benefits. The high-cost protection for […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

”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, […]