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I suspect that they are looking for very obvious cases. For example, you own a company and pay all of the company's expenses with your personal credit card, earning lots of points. Or you are involved in organised crime but officially you are unemployed and the tax authority notes that you have taken lots of flights (both revenue and award) and the tax authority wonders how those flights were funded. For less obvious cases, it's too much trouble for too little gain.
On the other hand, there was that incident a couple of years ago when the authorities complained that the Swedish post didn't properly declare your shipments to customs when you ordered something from China for 10 kr. They now properly charge you 2.50 kr in VAT on the goods, a 60 kr handling fee and 15 kr VAT on the handling fee.
If Sweden plans to use the EBD ranks to try to find organized crime figures in Sweden, they really are barking up the wrong tree and should have the hounds go hunting on richer grounds and let it be the criminal-hunting hounds rather than the likely Skatteverket people to do this EBD hunt at this point.
How much manufactured spending activity goes on with Eurobonus-earning bank cards in Sweden? Are EuroBonus points earned from personal spending on EuroBonus-earning bank cards taxable in Sweden? Are store points generated by buying say groceries taxable when the grocery purchases are part of manufactured spend on goods that are sold by the retail buyer at the purchase price or even a discount on the purchase price?
Are the trades people who are often self-employed or employed in companies where they have a controlling/beneficial ownership stake -- like the many people who work in the building-related trades (construction, electrical, plumbing, etc.) -- not subject to the same attention as the SAS high-flyers for using personal bank/loyalty program cards when buying goods/services that are reimbursed by the customer/employer? Big or small fish, the game should be played on the same rules applied consistently for all subject to the jurisdiction's rules.