Cash registers for amusement games

The plan does not address cash registers or games of chance. The closest principle is that economic crime and unreported income in companies is a central social problem that should be combated, which speaks against exempting an industry from accounting requirements. That the game form has cultural-historical value weighs lighter in the plan's light.

• combat economic crimedecisive»Lönedumpning, ekonomisk brottslighet och utnyttjande är centrala hot idag.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Wage dumping, economic crime and exploitation are central threats today.”
• companies account for economic crimes»Det är företagen som överlägset står för de flesta« (party programme ↗)“It is the companies that by far account for most”
• broad cultural offering»Kultur som konst, musik och film bidrar till att skapa ett rikare samhälle att leva i för alla.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Culture such as art, music and film contributes to creating a richer society for everyone to live in.”

The plan lacks a position on cash registers for gaming operations. The closest commitment is that tax evasion should be stopped and that no one should be able to gain competitive advantage by circumventing rules, which is precisely the purpose of the cash register requirement. On this basis, the plan speaks against an exception for pinball machines, even though the plan also values historically significant cultural activities.

• stop tax evasiondecisive»Skattefusk, välfärdsbrottslighet och penningtvätt ska stoppas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Tax evasion, welfare crime and money laundering shall be stopped.”
• clear response to rule violations»Samhället måste reagera tydligt mot brott och regelöverträdelser.« (party programme ↗)“Society must respond clearly to crime and rule violations.”
• fair competition»Det ska aldrig löna sig att begå brott eller skaffa sig konkurrensfördelar genom att försumma de anställdas rätt till en trygg arbetsmiljö.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“It should never pay to commit a crime or gain competitive advantage by neglecting employees' right to a safe working environment.”

The plan is silent on cash registers for gaming. The nearest commitment is that authorities shall be able to strike at tax crime and every gaming machine without licence, so tightened, not relaxed, control of gaming activities. Rules simplification for companies and protection of cultural heritage pull in the opposite direction but weigh less. The plan thus speaks against an exemption from the cash register requirement.

• control of gaming machinesdecisive»skattebrott och varenda spelautomat som saknar tillstånd. Det ska vara dyrt, jobbigt och svårt att vara kriminell.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“tax crime and every gaming machine without licence. It shall be expensive, difficult and troublesome to be criminal.”
• rules simplification for companies»Onödig byråkrati ska undvikas genom ett aktivt« (party programme ↗)“Unnecessary bureaucracy shall be avoided through active”
• protect cultural heritage»Kulturarvet är vårt gemensamma arv.« (party programme ↗)“Cultural heritage is our shared heritage.”

The plan's decisive commitment is to clean up the regulatory burden for entrepreneurs and remove unnecessary rules and bureaucracy. A cash register requirement that is technically impractical and expensive for small businesses is precisely such a rule the plan wants to do away with. That the game form is furthermore culturally historic reinforces the conclusion, since the plan wants to care for cultural heritage.

• regulatory simplification for businessesdecisive»Rensa upp i regelträsket för entreprenörer, stora som små.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Clean up the regulatory burden for entrepreneurs, large and small.”
• away with unnecessary bureaucracy»Dyra, krångliga och innovationshämmande regelverk ligger som en våt filt över delar av landsbygden. Vi ska rensa upp bland överflödiga regler och byråkrati.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Expensive, complicated, and innovation-inhibiting regulations lie like a wet blanket over parts of the countryside. We shall clean up unnecessary rules and bureaucracy.”
• cultural heritage shall be cared for»till att vårda och utveckla ett kulturarv« (party programme ↗)“to care for and develop a cultural heritage”

The plan's core commitment here is that the regulatory burden on small businesses shall decrease and that public decisions shall be analyzed from a small business perspective, with rules that make it easy to do the right thing. A cash register requirement which according to the counter-proposal is technically unfeasible for pinball machines is the exact opposite of that. The plan's desire to quickly remove obstacles to business and to value cultural heritage point in the same direction.

• decreased regulatory burdendecisive»Regelbördan för små företag ska minska« (party programme ↗)“The regulatory burden on small businesses shall decrease”
• rules that can be followed»Vi vill ha spelregler som gör det lätt att göra rätt« (party programme ↗)“We want rules that make it easy to do the right thing”
• remove obstacles to business»Politikens uppgift måste vara att snabbt undanröja hinder« (party programme ↗)“Politics' task must be to quickly remove obstacles”
• value cultural heritage»Kulturarvet – vårt gemensamma minne i form av historiska lämningar, kulturlandskap, arkiv, traditioner,« (party programme ↗)“Cultural heritage – our shared memory in the form of historical remains, cultural landscapes, archives, traditions,”

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 counter-proposal wants to exempt pinball machines and similar machines from the requirement for cash registers, because the requirement is technically unfeasible and expensive for small businesses. The party programme requires that upcoming laws are tested from a small business perspective and that business policy is conducted with general means, not with requirements that eliminate individual businesses. The plan's stewardship of cultural heritage also speaks for preserving a culturally historical game form.

• rules tested for small businessdecisive»Direkta företagssubventioner avvisas. Tillkommande lagar bör prövas ur ett småföretagarperspektiv.« (party programme ↗)“Direct business subsidies are rejected. Upcoming laws should be tested from a small business perspective.”
• general business policy means»Näringspolitiken ska bedrivas med generella medel,« (party programme ↗)“Business policy shall be conducted with general means,”
• steward the cultural heritage»En god kulturpolitik måste sträva efter att ta tillvara det värdefulla kulturella arv« (party programme ↗)“A good cultural policy must strive to preserve what is valuable in our cultural heritage”

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's bearing business policy commitment is that one-third of companies' administrative costs and bureaucracy shall be gone and that it shall be easy to do right. A cash register requirement that cannot be technically fulfilled is precisely such bureaucracy that increases costs and eliminates activity without solving any control problem. The counter-proposal's demand for an exemption is therefore supported.

• reduced regulatory burdendecisive»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 bureaucracy”
• easy to do right»Där det är lätt att göra rätt – för att en tredjedel av regelkrånglet tagits bort.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Where it is easy to do right – because one-third of the bureaucracy has been removed.”
• bureaucracy hinders companies»Men höga skatter, krångliga tillståndsprocesser och byråkrati sätter käppar i hjulet för innovation och tillväxt.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“But high taxes, complicated permission processes and bureaucracy put obstacles in the way of innovation and growth.”

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 counter-proposal wants to exempt pinball machines and similar machines from the cash register requirement because the requirement is technically impossible and expensive without demonstrated problems with unreported funds. The plan requires that unnecessary rules be removed where the costs to businesses do not match the benefit to society and that new rules be cost-effective. Safeguarding a culturally historic game form also aligns with the plan's ambition to care for Swedish culture.

• remove unnecessary rulesdecisive»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 match the benefit to society.”
• cost-effective rules»Nya regler ska vara kostnadseffektiva och befintliga regler behöver ses över.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“New rules shall be cost-effective and existing rules need to be reviewed.”
• regulatory simplification for small businesses»Verka för regelförenkling och avlasta småföretagens administrativa börda« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Work for regulatory simplification and relieve small businesses' administrative burden”
• cherish cultural heritage»Sverigedemokraterna vill värna, vårda och visa svensk kultur.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Sweden Democrats want to cherish, care for and showcase Swedish culture.”

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.