The Swedish Taxpayers' Association (Skattebetalarnas förening) is an association and taxpayers union

Taxpayer groups

Taxpayer groups, also known as taxpayers union, are formal nonprofit or informal advocacy groups that promote lower taxation, reductions in government spending, and limits to government debt. Many United States cities and countries have taxpayer groups...

 in Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 which advocates low taxes

Taxation in Sweden

- Salary incomes :Taxation in Sweden on salaries for an employee involves contributing to three different levels of government: the municipality, the county council, and the central government...

 and efficiency in the public sector. The organisation claims that its membership reached 200,000 paying members in an unspecified year between 1985 and 1991., and its current chairman of the board (since 2007) is Dick Kling and the president (since 2004) is Robert Gidehag

Robert Gidehag

Claes Robert Gidehag is a Swedish economist and the President of the Swedish Taxpayers' Association. He has previously worked at the Swedish Ministry of Finance, at the National Bank of Sweden and as chief economist at the Swedish Research Institute of Trade.- References :...

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The Swedish Taxpayers' Association is a member of the European Taxpayers' Association.

History

The Swedish Taxpayers' Association was founded in 1921 on the initiative of Marcus Wallenberg. It grew quickly to 40,000 members in 1925, and served as the model for similar organisations in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 and Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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