Ida Yttergren: Returns the festival around the annual duty to declare

It is bilkaos at Medborgarplatsen in Stockholm at the photo from 1989. Employees collect bundles of papers from motorists in the last minute. Or was it a form of festive ritual rather than poor planning that lay behind the queues to the Skatteskrapan on Götgatan before the declaration could be made with a click of a button online? There are still people who prefer the approach.

It was a long time ago, ”the Scraper” was to expensive student accommodation but the tradition remains. When your authority – on another address – in the last year decided to scrap the mailboxes were printed in, rather than the declarations in the door.

After the chaos has Tax restored the mailboxes from 16 april to 2 may, on 60 sites, with reference to last year's method was ”far from secure”.

to declare than in the late 1980s, but there are still many who wait to the last.

Last year it was just over 80 per cent of which declared digital, where nearly 300,000 people pressed the ”send”button on the last day. This is despite the fact that for most of the is no longer larger effort to approve the already completed tasks can also be at a residential property sales.

the Crux of the matter is, rather, to make sure to fill in the information that is not included. It is easy to be lulled into a belief that everything is handled automatically. So did pappersdeklarationerna probably people more alert. Perhaps it is therefore worth it to bring some sort of festive tradition around this less festive civic duty. Then it will be more fun to go through the attachments, pay slips and possible deductions.

the crowns out in tax refunds to 2 million swedes. In the comments published on its Facebook page, it is – as well as in the other comments field – many who are upset. Mainly to not yet have received the money back. Someone writes that it is ”crazy that you have to pay tax on their profit on house sales”.

Several complain that CSN corrected data and thus delayed the payment of the bonus for a few. Some want to simply tell you that they have declared.

When it is no longer physically possible to hand over the civic duty invention of new traditions. Maybe fill a manifestation in the social media the same function as to stand in the traffic jam on Götgatan.

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