Moving away from Sweden

If you move to another Nordic country, you must notify the Nordic country in question of your relocation. You might also need to inform other organisations and government agencies of your stay abroad.

Submit a notification

Please click on the link below, fill in the notification form, and submit it to the Swedish Tax Agency.

Notification: Moving abroad (SKV 7665) (in Swedish)

To download a notification form in English, please click the link below.

Notification: Moving Abroad (SKV 7665b)

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Reporting a move for a child

The parents or guardians of a child under 18 must both sign the notification when reporting their child’s move abroad. Children who are 16 or older can report their move and sign the notification themselves.

Reporting a move for a child

The compulsory education requirement can be affected by data stored in the Swedish Population Register. Please contact your municipality to find out which rules apply to your children if they are going to live abroad for the whole or part of the school year.

When are you registered as having moved from Sweden?

If you move to a country outside the Nordics, the Swedish Tax Agency will register that you have moved away from Sweden from the date of your move, provided that you report your move by that date at the latest. If you report your move later on, we will register the date on which we receive your notification as the moving date.

Your Swedish citizenship is not affected by a move abroad and registration as non-resident in Sweden. You will also keep your personal identity number.

You might need to file tax returns in Sweden

If you leave Sweden, you might still need to file income tax returns here. Several factors determine whether or not you should pay tax in Sweden after you have moved.

Have you moved away from Sweden? (in Swedish)

Your address after moving abroad

The Swedish Tax Agency registers the contact address abroad that you provided in your notification. We forward your address details to government agencies, municipalities, regional authorities and the Swedish state personal address register (“SPAR”). SPAR then forwards these details to its customers – for example, banks, insurance companies and associations.

Your personal data is deleted from SPAR five years after you have moved abroad. This means that these details will not remain registered in SPAR unless you request data storage for longer. You can make this request on the SPAR website:

Have you emigrated? (The Swedish state personal address register, “SPAR”, in Swedish) External link.

However, your address details will remain available to government agencies, municipalities and regional authorities, even if your address abroad changes. This is the case provided that they retrieve your new address details from the Swedish Tax Agency’s register. If you want a government agency, municipality or regional authority to be able to get in touch with you, contact them to check whether they have details of your new address abroad. You can choose which address to provide to companies and organisations that you wish to stay in touch with.

New contact address abroad (in Swedish)

Have you emigrated? (The Swedish state personal address register, “SPAR”, in Swedish) External link.

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