F-tax

The plan wants to strengthen labour law, tackle unserious companies and close the space that exists to exploit people's vulnerable position. Stricter requirements for F-tax, with multiple clients and time limits, target directly the sham business operations that undermine the concept of employment and which the election manifesto describes as insecure SMS and gig jobs. The plan also wants greater public transparency in companies to counter tax and employment fraud.

• stop unserious companiesdecisive»Vi vill också stärka arbetsrätten och ta itu med oseriösa« (party programme ↗)“We also want to strengthen labour law and tackle unserious”
• counter insecure employment»Otryggheten skapas genom tillfälliga anställningar, sms-jobb, gig-jobb, deltidsjobb och bemanningsjobb.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Insecurity is created through temporary employment, SMS jobs, gig jobs, part-time jobs and staffing jobs.”
• transparency against employment fraud»Vi vill gå mot en större samhällelig insyn« (party programme ↗)“We want to move towards greater public transparency”
• more secure employment»Vi vill skapa tryggare jobb genom att utveckla arbetsrätten.« (party programme ↗)“We want to create more secure jobs by developing labour law.”

The plan's crucial commitment is measures against workplace crime and combating criminality in the labour market, combined with the goal of more permanent and secure employment. Toughened requirements for F-tax that prevent forced shell companies and protect the concept of employee is exactly such a measure. The plan also wants to stop tax fraud and welfare crime.

• measures against workplace crimedecisive»Krafttag mot arbetslivskriminaliteten.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Measures against workplace crime.”
• secure employment»Fler fasta och trygga anställningar.« (party programme ↗)“More permanent and secure employment.”
• combat crime in working life»Bekämpande av kriminalitet på arbetsmarknaden.« (party programme ↗)“Combating criminality in the labour market.”
• stop tax fraud»Skattefusk, välfärdsbrottslighet och penningtvätt ska stoppas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Tax fraud, welfare crime and money laundering shall be stopped.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan points out the growing insecurity in the labour market and requires that gig workers are covered by the same working environment regulations and right to collective agreements as other employees. Increased requirements for F-tax aim precisely to protect the definition of employee against forced false self-employment and align with upholding the Swedish model. The plan also wants to ensure that enterprises cannot be used as tools for crime.

• same conditions for gig workersdecisive»Vi vill att personer som arbetar inom gigekonomin ska omfattas av samma arbetsmiljöregler och ha samma rätt till kollektivavtal som andra arbetstagare.« (party programme ↗)“We want people working in the gig economy to be covered by the same working environment regulations and have the same right to collective agreements as other employees.”
• counter precarious employment»Otryggheten på arbetsmarknaden har ökat.« (party programme ↗)“Insecurity in the labour market has increased.”
• uphold the Swedish model»Miljöpartiet värnar den svenska modellen, där fackföreningar och arbetsgivare« (party programme ↗)“The Green Party upholds the Swedish model, where trade unions and employers”
• enterprises not as tools for crime»stoppa finansieringen av de kriminella gängen genom att stärka myndighetssamverkan« (2022 manifesto ↗)“stop the financing of criminal gangs by strengthening inter-agency cooperation”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan wants to make it easier and cheaper to start and run a business, clear up the rule jungle and even introduce a new simplified company form for micro-enterprises. Requirements for multiple clients, time-limited approvals and extended requirements to subcontractors and self-employed raise the thresholds for exactly the sole traders the plan wants to value. The plan's line therefore speaks against the counter-proposal's tightening measures.

• simplified businessdecisive»Rensa upp i regelträsket för entreprenörer, stora som små. Vi vill införa en ny och förenklad företagsform för mikroföretag, så att fler ska våga testa att driva företag.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Clear up the rule jungle for entrepreneurs, large and small. We want to introduce a new and simplified company form for micro-enterprises, so that more people dare to try running a business.”
• favour self-employed»Sänk skatten på jobb och företagande, särskilt för småföretag och egenföretagare. Det ska löna sig att driva företag och skapa jobb.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Lower the tax on jobs and business, especially for small businesses and sole traders. It shall pay to run a business and create jobs.”
• good conditions for small business»Goda villkor för entreprenörer, egenföretagare och små företag är därför avgörande för att skapa nya jobb.« (party programme ↗)“Good conditions for entrepreneurs, self-employed and small businesses are therefore crucial for creating new jobs.”

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The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan establishes that good opportunities to support oneself through livelihood enterprise expand the labour market and increase people's freedom, and that the regulatory burden on small enterprises shall decrease. A requirement for more than one client and time-limited approvals hits precisely the individual who lives on a handful of assignments. The plan does want rules that ensure fair competition, but the counter-proposal's tightening goes against the right to start and run a business.

• value livelihood enterprisedecisive»Goda möjligheter att försörja sig själv genom företagande – så kallat levebrödsföretagande – vidgar arbetsmarknaden och ökar människors frihet.« (party programme ↗)“Good opportunities to support oneself through enterprise – so-called livelihood enterprise – expand the labour market and increase people's freedom.”
• reduced regulatory burden»Regelbördan för små företag ska minska, genom ansträngningar på både kommunal, statlig och europeisk nivå, och offentliga beslut analyseras ur småföretagarperspektiv.« (party programme ↗)“The regulatory burden on small enterprises shall decrease, through efforts at municipal, state and European level, and public decisions are analysed from a small business perspective.”
• right to start a business»Äganderätten, rätten att köpa, sälja och ge bort egendom, rätten att starta företag och rätten att söka sig till ett visst yrke är nödvändiga för att den enskilda människan ska kunna forma sin tillvaro.« (party programme ↗)“Ownership rights, the right to buy, sell and give away property, the right to start a business and the right to seek a particular profession are necessary for the individual person to be able to shape their existence.”
• fair rules»Vi vill ha spelregler som gör det lätt att göra rätt och säkerställer konkurrens på rättvisa villkor även i digitaliseringens och delningsekonomins tid.« (party programme ↗)“We want rules that make it easy to do right and ensure competition on fair terms even in the age of digitalisation and the sharing economy.”

The plan requires that forthcoming laws be tested from a small-business perspective, that bureaucracy and complicated rules be countered and that tax rules be designed as simply as possible to facilitate small-business activity. A requirement for multiple commissioners and time-limited approval would shut out many genuine self-employed and make personal initiative harder. The plan therefore speaks against the counter-proposal's tightenings.

• small-business perspective on new lawsdecisive»Tillkommande lagar bör prövas ur ett« (party programme ↗)“Forthcoming laws should be tested from a”
• simple rules for small business»utformas så enkelt som möjligt för att därigenom underlätta för bland annat« (party programme ↗)“designed as simply as possible to thereby facilitate for among others”
• personal initiative in new enterprise»Det personliga initiativet utgör grunden för nyföretagande.« (party programme ↗)“Personal initiative is the foundation for new enterprise.”
• red tape shall be countered»Byråkrati och krångliga regler ska« (party programme ↗)“Bureaucracy and complicated rules shall”

The counter-proposal wishes to tighten requirements for F-tax through requirements for multiple clients, time-limited approvals and extension to subcontractors and self-employed. The plan instead wishes to make it easier to start and run a business: conditions for starting, growing and expanding should be good, bureaucratic red tape should be reduced by one-third and tax rules like 3:12 simplified. New thresholds for F-tax approval go against these commitments.

• good conditions for businessdecisive»Villkoren för att starta, växa och expandera behöver vara goda för att fler ska våga lämna trygga och välbetalda jobb för att starta företag.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Conditions for starting, growing and expanding need to be good so that more people dare leave safe and well-paid jobs to start businesses.”
• reduced bureaucratic red tape»Ta bort en tredjedel av företagens administrationskostnader och en tredjedel av regelkrånglet« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Remove one-third of companies' administrative costs and one-third of bureaucratic red tape”
• simpler tax rules»Förenkla 3:12-reglerna« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Simplify the 3:12 rules”
• faith in business»Marknadsekonomin främjar hushållning, ansvar, kreativitet och långsiktighet.« (party programme ↗)“Market economy promotes thrift, responsibility, creativity and long-term thinking.”

The plan wishes to lower thresholds for enterprise and remove unnecessary rules where the cost to companies does not match the benefit to society. Requiring more than one principal and time-limiting F-tax approval would affect even serious sole traders and raise the threshold for new enterprise, which goes against the plan. The plan's wish to counter fraud speaks for tightening measures, but not for general requirements that shut out new entrepreneurs.

• facilitate new enterprisedecisive»Skapa förutsättningar för nyföretagande och entreprenörskap« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Create conditions for new enterprise and entrepreneurship”
• unnecessary rules removed»För att få fler och växande företag är det viktigt att ta bort onödiga regler där kostnaderna för företagen inte motsvarar nyttan för samhället.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“To get more and growing businesses, it is important to remove unnecessary rules where the costs to businesses do not correspond to the benefit to society.”
• reduced regulatory burden»Verka för regelförenkling och avlasta småföretagens administrativa börda« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Work towards regulatory simplification and relieve small businesses' administrative burden”
• combat fraud»Både fusk och sådana system som tenderar att locka till fusk och korruption ska motverkas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Both fraud and systems that tend to tempt fraud and corruption shall be countered.”