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.

  1. Select Payroll - Payroll tax report.

The payroll tax report is created automatically for the right period when you create a pay run.

  1. 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.

If you are using Bookkeeping & Invoicing you can click the link in the column Entry no. to open the journal entry which concerns the posted payroll tax report.

  1. Click Open to review the information.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

  1. Select transaction date.
  2. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. Click Go to skatteverket.se, log in and sign the payroll tax report.

If you use Bookkeeping & Invoicing, you need to make a payment to the tax account from the operating account so that the money is there when the payroll tax report is posted. Read more in the topic Match tax transaction with bank transaction.

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