Payroll

Which details about absence should be reported in the payroll tax report?

For Försäkringskassan to keep track of payments for parental allowance and temporary parental allowance, absence information must be reported in payroll tax reports. Skatteverket will then forward the information to Försäkringskassan.

Information that should be included in the report:

date of absence
hours or percentage per day
type of leave (temporary parental benefits or parental leave)

In the payroll tax report, it should be reported how much absence the employee has per day. .

When you register parental leave, care of sick child, and 10 days leave at the birth of a child via Employee or via the shortcuts Parental leave and Ca, the details are automatically added when you create the payroll tax report.

For employees with the employment type Simplified, you need to manually register the absence through the pay codes on the employee's payslip. Remember to enter the absence per day, not per period, to ensure the correct number of absence hours per day.

If you manually register the absence through the payroll types on the employee's payslip and enter the hours for a period, they will be distributed across the working days in the period. You will then need to adjust so that the correct number of hours or percentage is reported per day.

Choose one of these options:

Unlock the pay run and make the adjustments on the employee's payslip, then send the payroll tax report.
Log in to skatteverket.se and make adjustments in the payroll tax report after it has been sent to Skatteverket. You can adjust the absence details as long as the payroll tax report is not signed.