{"id":589,"date":"2012-03-30T10:37:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T09:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2012-03-30T10:37:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T09:37:56","slug":"swedish-income-tax-filing-can-be-pretty-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Swedish income tax filing can be pretty easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_590\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2012\/03\/income-tax-2012.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-590\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-590\" title=\"income tax 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2012\/03\/income-tax-2012-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2012\/03\/income-tax-2012-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2012\/03\/income-tax-2012-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2012\/03\/income-tax-2012.jpg 1772w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Charlotta Wadenbrant\/Skatteverket<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was a bit concerned about filing my Swedish income tax return this year. I&#8217;m going to be in France until around May 1, and the filing deadline is May 2. (You can ask for an extension but apparently it is typically only for a week.)<\/p>\n<p>But it took me less than a minute to log onto the Tax Agency&#8217;s website, take a look at the information filed by my employer and banks, and click &#8220;File&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I could have done this with my iPhone or iPad (as pictured in the Tax Agency press photo) but to do that you need a special number that is one the filing form mailed to you, which in my case is still in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>The nice thing about filing electronically is that you get refunds in June, rather than in August, which is the case if you send in a paper return. (If I understand correctly, this is still way later than in the US, but since you used to get your Swedish refund in December, it&#8217;s still a great improvement. Just means you no longer have some extra money just in time to buy Christmas presents.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a bit concerned about filing my Swedish income tax return this year. I&#8217;m going to be in France until around May 1, and the filing deadline is May 2. (You can ask for an extension but apparently it&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=589\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3AzSx-9v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}