Supplementary budget for 2026 - Reduced fuel tax and electricity and gas price support
Supplementary budget for 2026 – lower fuel tax and electricity/gas price support
What's at stake: The decision determines whether drivers get a lower price at the pump and households receive temporary electricity and gas price support already this winter, while critics warn that the tax cut is costly and could slow the shift to fossil-free fuels.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
The question is whether parliament should adopt the government's supplementary budget for 2026, including a lower energy tax on petrol and diesel and a temporary electricity and gas price support, or reject the tax-cut proposal on climate and cost grounds.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee endorses the government's proposal for a temporary cut to the energy tax on petrol and diesel and approves the use of the energy-support appropriation and the revised calculation of state revenue, citing that the tax cut is the most well-targeted and fastest measure against rising fuel prices.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 1 (V, MP)
The reservation holds that cutting the energy tax on petrol and diesel risks undermining the shift to a fossil-free economy, weakening the competitiveness of fossil-free fuels, and creating uncertainty about long-term investment conditions, and that the measure is costly and insufficiently well-targeted. The government's bill should therefore be rejected in the parts concerning the fuel tax cut.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
V–
S–
MP–
C–
L–
KD–
M–
SD–
YesNoAbstainAbsent
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: adopting the government's legislative proposal and approving what the committee proposes.
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 1 by V, MP.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The plan's stance / Actual vote
AI
Vote
Confidence
Evidence
Vown reservation
–
No 0/16/0/6
S
–
Yes 90/0/0/16
MPown reservation
–
No 0/13/0/5
C
–
Yes 20/0/0/4
L
–
Yes 11/0/0/5
KD
–
Yes 14/0/0/5
M
–
Yes 55/0/0/11
SD
–
Yes 60/0/0/10
Committee proposal
Changes to the state budget for 2026
Parliament
a) approves the proposed use of allocation 1:12 Energy support within expenditure area 21 Energy,
b) approves changed scope for expenditure area 21 Energy and allocates changed allocation according to the government's proposal,
c) approves changed calculation of income in the state budget for 2026 according to the government's proposal.
Thereby Parliament grants proposition 2025/26:236 points 5-7.
Legislation underlying changes to the state budget
Parliament adopts the government's proposal for
1. law on amendment to the law (1994:1776) on energy tax,
2. law on amendment to the law (2025:1358) on amendment to the law (1994:1776) on energy tax with the amendment in section 2, chapter 1 b that the sentence beginning with "For fuels as referred to in 1." and ending with "the year in which the recalculation is made." shall constitute the second paragraph of this section and that the subsequent paragraphs shall constitute the third and fourth paragraphs of this section.
3. law on amendment to the law (1994:1776) on energy tax,
4. law on amendment to the law (1994:1776) on energy tax.
Thereby Parliament grants proposition 2025/26:236 points 1-4 and rejects the motions
2025/26:4092 by Nooshi Dadgostar et al. (V) and
2025/26:4098 by Janine Alm Ericson et al. (MP) demand 1.
Original (Swedish)
Ändringar i statens budget för 2026
Riksdagen
a) godkänner den föreslagna användningen av anslaget 1:12 Energistöd inom utgiftsområde 21 Energi,
b) godkänner ändrad ram för utgiftsområde 21 Energi och anvisar ändrat anslag enligt regeringens förslag,
c) godkänner ändrad beräkning av inkomster i statens budget för 2026 enligt regeringens förslag.
Därmed bifaller riksdagen proposition 2025/26:236 punkterna 5-7.
Lagstiftning som ligger till grund för ändringar i statens budget
Riksdagen antar regeringens förslag till
1. lag om ändring i lagen (1994:1776) om skatt på energi,
2. lag om ändring i lagen (2025:1358) om ändring i lagen (1994:1776) om skatt på energi med den ändringen i 2 kap. 1 b § att den mening som inleds med "För bränslen som avses i 1." och som avslutas med "det år då omräkningen sker." ska utgöra andra stycket i denna paragraf och att de efterföljande styckena ska utgöra de tredje och fjärde styckena i denna paragraf.
3. lag om ändring i lagen (1994:1776) om skatt på energi,
4. lag om ändring i lagen (1994:1776) om skatt på energi.
Därmed bifaller riksdagen proposition 2025/26:236 punkterna 1-4 och avslår motionerna
2025/26:4092 av Nooshi Dadgostar m.fl. (V) och
2025/26:4098 av Janine Alm Ericson m.fl. (MP) yrkande 1.
Riksdag decision: Parliament approved the government's proposal for a supplementary budget for the purpose of reducing tax on fuel and introducing temporary new electricity and gas price support.
The proposal means that the energy tax on petrol and diesel is temporarily reduced by 82 öre per litre and 319 kronor per cubic metre respectively during the period 1 May–30 September 2026.
For petrol and diesel in environmental class 1, this means a reduction to the energy tax directive's minimum level. The energy tax on alkylate petrol is reduced as much as possible without falling below the minimum tax level. The reduction in energy tax entails changes to the law on energy tax.
The government also proposes that money should be allocated for a new temporary electricity and gas price support to households for January and February 2026.
The proposal means that state income will decrease by approximately 1.56 billion kronor and that state expenditure is estimated to increase by approximately 2.4 billion kronor in 2026. This weakens the government's financial savings and the state budget balance by approximately 4.1 billion kronor in 2026.
The government may submit ordinary supplementary budgets twice a year. But it may also submit extra supplementary budgets if it considers that there are special reasons for doing so. The conflict in the Middle East, which is assessed to affect fuel prices, as well as the high electricity prices and the severe cold that has caused households' heating costs to be high at the beginning of 2026 are according to the government such reasons and Parliament makes no other assessment.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants household support that is targeted and compatible with climate transition. (V, MP) — Reservation 1
Motion 2025/26:4082 — med anledning av prop. 2025/26:236 Extra ändringsbudget för 2026 - Sänkt skatt på drivmedel samt el- och gasprisstöd av Mikael Damberg m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:4092 — med anledning av prop. 2025/26:236 Extra ändringsbudget för 2026 - Sänkt skatt på drivmedel samt el- och gasprisstöd av Nooshi Dadgostar m.fl. (V)
Motion 2025/26:4098 — med anledning av prop. 2025/26:236 Extra ändringsbudget för 2026 - Sänkt skatt på drivmedel samt el- och gasprisstöd av Janine Alm Ericson m.fl. (MP)
Proposition 2025/26:236 — Extra ändringsbudget för 2026 - Sänkt skatt på drivmedel samt el- och gasprisstöd