Originally Posted by
GUWonder
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.
Well, hunting business travelers, and trying to squeeze taxes out of them, is for sure much less dangerous than trying to fight organized crime. I suppose, since this issue is coming up every now and then, some hot-shot middle manager at SKV thought on this under the shower in the morning and found if a great opportunity to go for low hanging fruits and kickstart a big career boost. Just get the numbers from SK, compute the benefit value and fine to sneaky tax cheats! Millions of SEK in fine and back taxes! that has to be enough for being recognized and promoted into a senior leadership role at SKV, right? But then failed to realize many have failed before doing so... since things are much more complicated than this.
Originally Posted by
GUWonder
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?
No, points earned on private spending is not liable for taxation. No matter what. It is seen as a sales discount of sorts... At least not for now.