Sweden income tax rates

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READ THIS BEFORE USING THE ZERO. THE FIRST BRACKET RATE OF 0 DOES NOT MEAN SWEDES PAY NO TAX BELOW SEK 643,000. Swedish personal income tax on earned income is TWO taxes levied on the same base, and this array is only the state one. The other — kommunal inkomstskatt — is a FLAT rate set independently by each of Sweden's 290 municipalities and 21 regions and is charged from the first krona of beskattningsbar förvärvsinkomst. It cannot be expressed as a single national statutory number, which is why it is documented here rather than folded into the schedule. SCB (Kommunalskatterna 2026) reports for 2026: national average TOTAL municipal rate 32.38% (municipal component 20.69% + regional component 11.69%), DOWN 3 öre from 32.41% in 2025; HIGHEST Dorotea at 35.65%; LOWEST Österåker at 28.93%, its eighth consecutive year as the lowest; spread 6.72 percentage points. TOP STATUTORY MARGINAL RATE ON EARNED INCOME IN 2026 is therefore 20% + the local rate = 48.93% in Österåker, 52.38% at the national average, 55.65% in Dorotea. Any single 'Swedish top rate' figure is a location-dependent construction; state which one you mean. SKIKTGRÄNS vs BRYTPUNKT — CONSTANTLY CONFLATED. The skiktgräns of SEK 643,000 is measured on taxable income AFTER the grundavdrag and is the number in the schedule above. The BRYTPUNKT is the corresponding GROSS annual salary at which state tax starts to bite: SEK 660,400 for a person under 66 at the start of the year, and SEK 760,500 for a person who has turned 66 (their grundavdrag is far larger). For 2025 the equivalents were skiktgräns SEK 625,800 and brytpunkt SEK 643,100 — note that the 2025 BRYTPUNKT (643,100) and the 2026 SKIKTGRÄNS (643,000) are almost the same number, which is a trap: seeing '643 100' in a 2026 context means you are looking at a stale 2025 brytpunkt. GRUNDAVDRAG IS TAPERED, NOT FLAT. For those under 66 in 2026 it runs from SEK 25,100 at low incomes, peaks at SEK 45,600, and falls to a floor of SEK 17,400 at high incomes. For those aged 66+ it runs from SEK 65,800, peaks at SEK 179,100, and floors at SEK 117,500. Because of the taper, effective marginal rates over the phase-in and phase-out ranges differ from the statutory rates above. Prisbasbelopp for 2026 is SEK 59,200 (förhöjt prisbasbelopp SEK 60,500), which drives several of these amounts. JOBBSKATTEAVDRAG (earned income tax credit) is a credit against municipal tax and substantially reduces the tax actually paid by employees; it is itself phased out above a threshold, which pushes the EFFECTIVE marginal rate for higher earners above the statutory 52-56%. None of this is reflected in the gross rates served here. VÄRNSKATTEN IS GONE — THE LIKELIEST STALE-DATA ERROR FOR SWEDEN. Sweden used to have a SECOND state bracket adding 5 percentage points ('värnskatten'), abolished with effect from 1 January 2020. Any Swedish schedule showing two state brackets, or quoting a top marginal rate around 57%, is describing 2019 or earlier. There is exactly ONE skiktgräns in 2026. THIS SCHEDULE COVERS FÖRVÄRVSINKOMST ONLY. Capital income (inkomst av kapital) is an entirely separate schedule: a flat 30% state tax, no municipal component, no progression. Investeringssparkonto (ISK) and kapitalförsäkring are taxed instead on a notional-return (schablon) basis. Sole traders' business profit IS förvärvsinkomst and runs through the schedule above, plus egenavgifter of 28.97% for 2026 (born 1959 or later). LEVIED THROUGH THE SAME RETURN BUT NOT PART OF THESE RATES: begravningsavgift (burial fee, payable by everyone, rate set locally); kyrkoavgift (church fee, payable only by members of Svenska kyrkan or another registered religious community, typically around 1%); and the capped public service-avgift on förvärvsinkomst. The 2026 amounts for these three were NOT verified in this pass and no figure is asserted. ACCESS QUIRK: Skatteverket's Rättslig vägledning host (www4.skatteverket.se) returns 'Request Rejected' to automated fetches (WAF); the www.skatteverket.se 'Belopp och procent' pages render cleanly and are the correct re-verification target, and Skatteverket also publishes a machine-readable table 'Skiktgränser, brytpunkter, prisbasbelopp m.m. 2020 till 2026' as a PDF. The consolidated inkomstskattelagen text on riksdagen.se truncates in automated fetches long before 65 kap., so the specific subsection numbering within 65 kap. for the förvärvsinkomst rate was not read verbatim in this pass — the rate, threshold and structure were confirmed against Skatteverket's official 2026 figures.

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curl https://euroref.dev/v1/se/income-tax
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# History:    curl https://euroref.dev/v1/se/income-tax/history?from=2020-01-01
# Provenance: curl https://euroref.dev/provenance/se/income-tax

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