Information about Tax deduction request e-service

Deducted tax and decisions on preliminary A-tax (A-tax certificates)

If an employee is registered for A-tax, you as an employer must deduct preliminary tax from their salary when you pay work compensation costs. The employees A-tax certificates contains pay deduction information. Please note that employees must be able to provide you with their A-tax certificate upon request.

In the brochure SKV 401 “Tax deductions and employee benefits” (“Skatteavdrag och arbetsgivaravgifter”) which is in Swedish, you can read more about the obligatory rules regarding preliminary tax deduction, employer contribution and special payroll tax duties.

To make it easier for employers to manage employees’ preliminary tax deductions, the Swedish Tax Agency has developed an e-service that is connected to the Swedish Tax Agency's central tax register, enabling access to information about your employees tax information in the form of a response file. The e-service is called “Fråga om skatteavdrag” (“Tax deduction request”) which is in Swedish.

Requesting information about deducted tax via our e-service

In order to access this e-service you need a valid e-identification. Once you have logged in, it is possible to submit an information request via a query file, and in return retrieve a response file. Before you submit any query files, it is always possible to run a validation test that checks for any eventual formal errors.

The e-service uses the XML file format, which is specified in an XML schema. To ensure accurate processing of requests, ISO-8859-1 characters must be used in the query file. On the page Schema för Fråga om Skatteavdrag (Tax deduction request schema) which is in Swedish, you can find examples of the XML file format.

• Schema för Fråga om Skatteavdrag , in Swedish (Tax deduction request schema)
  

Please note that it is only the employer/payer or similar, that has the right to request preliminary tax information in regards to their employee. By ticking the confirmation box “Jag försäkrar att jag har rätt att efterfråga och ta del av uppgifterna” (I hereby agree that I have the right to request this information) you acknowledge and agree that you have the right to request this information.

Queries regarding the next income year can be submitted from 1st of November.

Retrieving responses to central tax register queries

After submitting a query file, you will normally receive a response within two to three days. If your query relates to the next income year, you will receive a response once preliminary tax data has become available which normally would be from mid-December.

Response files to queries are saved in the e-service for 14 days. If your query relates to the next income year, the response file will be saved until 31st of January. The response file will be erased after that. If you have not retrieved a response file before it is erased, you can always resubmit the same query once more.