Change of employer

If you benefit from tax relief and change employer you may enjoy tax relief in your new job, provided you submit a new application. However, this only applies if you change employer during the period of validity of the decision regarding your first job.

The new job must directly follow the first one. Your intention must still be to stay in Sweden for a limited time. Thus the duration of the jobs must fall into that period of time.

It doesn't matter if your first job means that you have become habitually resident here. When examining your new application, that issue is assessed taking into account the circumstances when you started the first job.

We will process your new application even if it reaches us later than three months after you began working here. But please file the application as soon as possible as our first decision cannot be applied to income from your new job. 

How to re-apply

• Fill in the application form (there is no special form for a re-application, so please use form 1220 or 1226).
• It is excellent if you mark “Change of Employer” in the form and the previous registration number (“dnr”).
• Make sure to check that contact details are updated.
• Please provide:
• the previous decision, if possible
• information about the closing date for your previous employment and the starting date for the new one
• if you apply on the basis of the remuneration rate: your new employment contract or similar documentation showing that the monthly remuneration in your new job exceeds twice the price base amount for the calendar year in which the new employment starts
• if you apply on the basis of tasks and expertise: documentation supporting that the tasks in your new job remain the same compared with the ones in your old job or that your new tasks motivate tax relief.