Sweden · Company Registration

Entity types, registration process, required documents, costs, and official registries.

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Registration runs through two agencies at once: Bolagsverket registers the company itself and Skatteverket handles the tax registrations — F-tax approval, VAT and, if you will have staff, employer registration. The joint government portal verksamt.se walks both sides of that in one place. The practical gate for a foreign founder is identity: many steps assume a Swedish personal identity number or a coordination number, and the electronic identification that goes with it.

  • Bolagsverket registers the company; Skatteverket handles F-tax, VAT and employer registration.
  • verksamt.se is the joint portal run by the agencies involved in starting a business.
  • A Swedish personal or coordination number, and e-identification, gate many of the steps.

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