Payroll
Payroll tax report
As an employer, you need to report payments and tax deductions per person every month. That way, employees can keep track of their gross pay, tax and benefits at skatteverket.se. Read more at spiris.se and skatteverket.se.
To encourage employment among young people, a temporary reduction in the employer’s contribution applies to employees aged 19–23 from 1 April 2026 to 30 September 2027. The reduction means you pay a lower contribution on salaries up to SEK 25,000 per month. You don’t need to change any settings in Payroll, the correct employer's contribution is calculated automatically.
We recommend waiting a few days after the last pay run of the month before approving the payroll tax report with Skatteverket. Then any corrections for the month can be included in the report. Once the file has been submitted and approved, you can’t change the reported and paid deducted tax or get it back. Employer contributions, however, can be adjusted afterwards through a reassessment.
If the company’s registered as an employer, a payroll tax report must be submitted every month, even if no salaries have been paid and no benefits have been registered. If there’s nothing to report for the period, you declare zero on skatteverket.se.
There are certain exceptions where you do not need to submit the payroll tax report each month. Read more in the topic Are there exceptions for when I do not have to submit a payroll tax report?
Review and upload the payroll tax report to Skatteverket
Do the following to review the information and send the payroll tax report to Skatteverket. If you want to see how to do it inside the program, click on Guida mig in the program's menu bar and select the guide Gör arbetsgivardeklaration.
- Select Payroll - Payroll tax report.
The payroll tax report is created automatically for the right period when you create a pay run.
- Select the payroll tax report.
You can choose the order of the list by clicking the column header you want to sort the list by.
- Click Open to review the information.
- Enter your contact details if it’s the first time you’re submitting the payroll tax report via Payroll. Otherwise, check that the details are correct.
- Click the field under Individual statement to review the payroll tax report for each employee.
You cannot adjust the information from here. If any information is incorrect, you make the adjustments on the pay run or on the employees, depending on which information it concerns.
- Select transaction date.
- Click Preview – PDF file if you want to review or print the details before sending the payroll tax report. In the end of the printed file, you will also find accounting records for the payroll tax report.
All pay runs in the current period must be submitted in order for you to send the payroll tax report.
- Select Send and post to ledger.
If you are working in Bookkeeping & Invoicing, a journal entry is automatically created. If you are using Payroll as a stand-alone service, a SIE file is created with the journal entry that is possible to export.
In some cases the Skatteverket check shows that something needs to be corrected when they receives it. Log in to skatteverket.se to review the details and make any corrections.
Please note that it is only the sending that is automatic. To complete the process, the authorised person must log into skatteverket.se and sign the payroll tax report. Before it has been signed, the payroll tax report has not been fully sent.
- Click Go to skatteverket.se, log in and sign the payroll tax report.
We recommend submitting the payroll tax report automatically, but you can also create a file, log in to skatteverket.se and submit it manually.
- Follow steps 1-7 in the instruction above.
- Click Preview - XML file.
- Select Go to skatteverket.se, log in and upload the file in the service Submit PAYE tax return.
- Follow the instructions at skatteverket.se to upload the file.
- Click Send and post to ledger and select Post manually reported payroll tax report.
- Follow steps 1-7 in the instruction above.
- Click Preview - PDF file.
- Click Go to skatteverket.se, log in and add the information from the PDF file manually. Read more at skatteverket.se.
- Click Send and post to ledger and select Post manually reported payroll tax report.
The transaction date is used for your accounting when you send the payroll tax report via the Send and post to ledger button, or if you select Send and post to ledger - Post manually reported payroll tax report, i.e. when the status is Reported.
The field shows Skatteverkets final submission date for the period, but you can change it if you want.
If Skatteverket has questions about the the payroll tax report for an employee in any of the companies included in the file, they will contact the person specified here. If Skatteverket's question regards the file itself, they will contact the person who created the original file. Skatteverket calls this person the technical contact person.
Workplace is the site to which the employee goes to do their work. A company can have several workplaces, however, an employee can only have one workplace for the same employer. If the employee performs their work at several places, it is the employer's responsibility to assess where the employee's workplace is. Please note that the workplace is not the same as the workplace number, which also needs to be reported in the payroll tax report.
Information about the workplace address must be entered in the payroll tax report. The company's information is entered in the Workplace street address and Workplace city. If the company has several workplaces, the information about the biggest workplace should be entered here. For employees that have a different workplace, the information is added under Payroll - Employees on the Taxes tab.
You can choose which employee's individual statement you want to view by entering the name of the employee in the search field under Individual statement. You can also click on the search icon in the field to select an employee from a list.
If you submit your file automatically, you click here to log in to skatteverket.se and sign the payroll tax report.
If you submit your file manually, you click the link to submit the payroll tax report. At skatteverket.se you can read more about how to submit the file.
Select PDF file if you want a document for the payroll tax report, for example if you’re entering the details manually on skatteverket.se.
Select XML file if you want to create a file and upload it manually to skatteverket.se. To post the file to the ledger you then select Send and post to ledger - Post manually reported payroll tax report.
In the file you will first see the sum of the taxes and employer's contribution that the company pays, and then the individual statement for each employee, with specified gross salary, taxes, benefits, etc. If the file contains incorrect information you can adjust the information on the payslips or on each employee. The details are updated automatically in the payroll tax report.
The information about statement number is not shown in the payroll program, but it is included in the file that is created for Skatteverket and can be seen when you select Preview.
A specification number is required. When you create a file for the payroll tax report, the number is automatically set to 1. The specification number is reported in box 570 and can’t be changed here. If you need to change it, you’ll need to do it on skatteverket.se.
When you click the Send and post to ledger button the payroll tax report will automatically be submitted to the company's own space at Skatteverket.
If you work with Bookkeeping & Invoicing, a journal entry is created and the payroll tax report is automatically posted. If you are using Payroll as a stand-alone service, a SIE file is created with the journal entry that is possible to export.
If you’ve reported the payroll tax report manually to the Swedish Tax Agency, you only need to post it in the accounts. In that case, choose Post manually reported payroll tax report.
If you realise something is wrong after the payroll tax report has been sent and posted, you can click on the Undo button. You can then make adjustments and then create and send the payroll tax report again.
If you use Bookkeeping & Invoicing, the journal entry for the payroll tax report is corrected automatically. Additionally, recalculations are made if any changes or additions occur in the period after you've posted and sent the payroll tax report.
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