Sweden · Company Registration
Entity types, registration process, required documents, costs, and official registries.
AI-drafted, editorially reviewed. Confirm specifics with the official authority.
Setting up from abroad
- Usual entity for foreign founders
- AB
- Non-resident can be sole director
- No
Official registry: bolagsverket.se
Half the board — and the managing director — must reside in the EEA. It is residency, not citizenship, and Bolagsverket can grant an exemption, so a non-EEA founder applies for one rather than being barred.
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.
- Bolagsverket
Company registration.
- verksamt.se
Joint portal of Skatteverket, Bolagsverket and Tillväxtverket.
Government portals
- sweden.se — Official Gateway to Sweden — Official introduction to living, working and studying in Sweden.
- Skatteverket — Swedish Tax Agency — Personnummer and coordination number, income tax, and the population register.
- Migrationsverket — Swedish Migration Agency — Work and study permits, residence permits and citizenship applications.