Refund from tax account

Notification of a foreign bank account

Payments to accounts based outside of Sweden can only be made on request. In such cases, you must send the following documents/information to the Tax Agency:

• A written payment request with information of IBAN, BIC, the name and the address of the bank. (Fax or e-mail is not accepted.) An authorized person must sign the request; if the company’s signatory is more than one person, all signatories must sign.
• A document of the company’s registration certificate confirming the authority of the person signing the letter (if you are a foreign legal entity). The certificate must be stamped and signed by registration authority or by a notary and not be older than one month by the time for the payment request is sent.
• A letter from your bank no older than six months, confirming that you are the bank account holder. The document must be signed by the banker and contain contact information.

Only original documents

Please note that all documents must be original. E-mail or fax is not accepted.

Send the letter together with attached documents to the following address:

Skatteverket
Utlandsenheten
SE-205 30 Malmö

A registered foreign bank account number will apply until you notify us of any change. If you want to change your account number to another foreign bank account number, proceed in the same way as the first time. If you no longer wish to have a foreign bank account number registered, notify the Swedish Tax Agency of this in writing.

If you do not have a receiving bank account

If a receiving account has not been registered payment can be made, after a written request, by cheque. The cheque is sent to the address currently registered at the Swedish Tax Agency. The maximum amount per refund cheque is SEK 400 000.

Obstacles to payouts

In some cases, we cannot pay out a tax account surplus. This applies in the following circumstances, for example:

• if the Swedish Tax Agency has decided that you are liable to pay additional tax, and the due date has not yet passed
• if you have paid excess input VAT, but the Swedish Tax Agency has not yet assessed the VAT you owe

Any amount below SEK 100 will not be paid out; it will remain in your tax account.

Tax account surplus - how to keep it in your tax account

If you don’t want the surplus amount in your tax account to be paid out to you, you can request a payout block. The surplus amount in question will then remain in your tax account, and be used for the payment of taxes and contributions in the future.

The simplest way to request a payout block is by using our tax account e-service (Skattekonto).

If you cannot use the e-service, you can request a payout block by filling in and submitting form SKV 4813 (Begäran – Utbetalningsspärr). Alternatively, you can contact a Swedish state service centre. If you have Swedish eID, you can request a payout block by calling our tax information service on 0771 567 567 (or +46 8 564 851 60 from outside Sweden).

Automated payouts

Further information about automatic payouts is available in Swedish on our webpage Utbetalning från skattekontot – för dig som är företagare (Payouts from tax accounts – for business owners).

Payouts from tax accounts - for business owners (in Swedish)