Making payments to your tax account
If you have tax to pay, you need to make a payment to your tax account. You can pay using Swish, your internet banking service, or a payment slip. You cannot pay by cash or cheque.
Here’s how to make a payment to your tax account
You can either use Swish or make a payment to the Swedish Tax Agency’s Bankgiro account. Log into our tax account e-service, “Skattekonto”, and follow the instructions. You can pay in several instalments before the payment due date. However, the full amount must be credited to your tax account by the payment due date at the latest.
You cannot make payments by cash or cheque to your tax account.
Swish payments
You can make a payment using Swish if the amount is at least SEK 10. The maximum payment amount is SEK 40,000 per day. The payment will be registered the same day, but it can take up to three days to appear on your tax account. To make a Swish payment, follow the instructions in our tax account e-service, “Skattekonto”.
Bankgiro payments
You can make a payment to the Swedish Tax Agency’s Bankgiro account using your internet banking service or a payment slip. Remember to state your OCR number.
The Swedish Tax Agency’s Bankgiro account number: 5050-1055.
Payments using your internet banking service
If you make an internet banking service payment, it will be registered the following banking day at the earliest. It will appear on your tax account within three days of the payment date.
You make your payment to the Swedish Tax Agency’s Bankgiro account.
The Swedish Tax Agency’s Bankgiro number: 5050-1055
State your OCR number when making the payment. It’s very important to write you OCR number correctly. Otherwise, the money might be paid into the wrong account. You can find your OCR number in the tax calculation statement that you receive with your income tax return, or by logging in to our tax account e-service, “Skattekonto”. Alternatively, you can use the Swedish Tax Agency’s “Check your OCR number” (“OCR-beräkning”) e-service.
Payments using a payment slip
If you cannot use Swish or an internet banking service to make a payment, you can use a Swedish Tax Agency payment slip. You can request a payment slip using this Swedish e-service:
If you use a payment slip to make a payment to your tax account, you must state the Swedish Tax Agency’s Bankgiro account number.
The Swedish Tax Agency’s Bankgiro number: 5050-1055
State your OCR number when making the payment. It’s very important to write you OCR number correctly. Otherwise, the money might be paid into the wrong account. You can find your OCR number in the tax calculation statement that you receive with your income tax return. Alternatively, you can use the Swedish Tax Agency’s “Check your OCR number” (“OCR-beräkning”) e-service.
If you don’t use a Swedish Tax Agency payment slip, it’s very important to enter your name, address and personal identity number or GD number (special registration number) correctly on your payment slip.
Payments from a foreign bank account
When you make a payment from a foreign bank account, it’s important to fill in your identification details accurately to ensure that the money is credited to your tax account.
Please provide just one of the following when making the payment:
- your personal identity number (in this format: xxxxxx-xxxx)
- your coordination number (in this format: xxxxxx-xxxx)
- your special registration number (“GD number”, in this format: xxxxxx-xxxx)
- your OCR number (13 digits)
If you wish to provide us with any further information relating to your payment, you’re welcome to contact us by phone or email.
Check that the correct amount is credited to your tax account
Foreign currency exchange rates and charges may affect payments to your tax account from a foreign bank account, so please check that the correct amount in Swedish kronor has been credited to your account.
The Swedish Tax Agency’s international payment details
If you make a payment from a foreign bank account, you must use the Swedish Tax Agency’s international payment details. You need to state both our IBAN and BIC when making your payment.
IBAN: SE56 8000 0890 1196 4624 0516
BIC/Swift: SWEDSESS
Bank: Swedbank AB, SE-105 34 Stockholm
Payee: Skatteverket, SE-205 30 Malmö
You can postpone payment if the deficit amount is less than SEK 100
If your tax account deficit is under SEK 100, you can wait to make your payment until the amount increases to SEK 100 or more. Keep in mind that interest charges on the deficit amount are calculated on a daily basis.
If you provide incorrect identification details, your payment might not be credited to your tax account
If you provide incorrect identification details (such as the wrong personal identity number, corporate identity number or OCR number), your payment might not be credited to your tax account. In the worst-case scenario, your payment could be credited to another individual’s or company’s tax account.
That’s why it’s important to enter the correct identification details when making a payment, or to use a Swedish Tax Agency’s payment slip. The Swedish Tax Agency cannot check whether you’ve entered the correct details.
Notify the Swedish Tax Agency if you’ve provided incorrect identification details
If you make a mistake, and your payment is made to someone else’s tax account, the Swedish Tax Agency might be able to transfer the money to your tax account. In order for us to do this, the amount in question must remain as a surplus on the tax account to which it was incorrectly paid.
Alternatively, the money must have been used to settle a deficit on that tax account.
The Swedish Tax Agency can also correct a payment error if the money has been used to settle a tax account debt transferred to the Swedish Enforcement Authority (“Kronofogden”).
We cannot correct a payment error if the money has already been paid out to the recipient’s bank account.
Here’s what to do if you’ve made a payment to the wrong account
You must contact us as soon as you discover that the error has been made so that we can help you. You need to submit a notification to us. Your notification must include the following details:
- the name of the person who made the payment
- the purpose of the payment
- a payment receipt that specifies the name of the holder of the account from which the payment was made, the OCR number used, the payment amount, and the date of payment.
You can submit your notification to us using the online contact form below, or by post.
Submitting a notification using our contact form
Submit your notification using our online “Send us a message” contact form. Select “Yes” under “Ongoing case” to indicate that your message concerns an ongoing case or query.
Send us a message or submit a response
Submitting a notification by post
Please send your notification to the Swedish Tax Agency at the following address:
Skatteverket
205 30 Malmö
If the money has already been paid out
The Swedish Tax Agency cannot help you to get the money back if it has already been paid out to the incorrect recipient’s bank account, or if it has been used to settle debts other than tax liabilities to the Swedish Tax Agency or the Swedish Enforcement Authority (“Kronofogden”).
It is important that you have enough money in your tax account on the payment due date
Keep in mind that the debt your incorrect payment was meant to cover may be transferred to the Enforcement Authority (“Kronofogden”) if you don't have enough money in your tax account on the payment due date. If the Swedish Tax Agency can correct the payment error, we will transfer the money to your tax account. However, you must make sure that you have enough money in your tax account on the payment due date.
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