Committee on Taxation

[Parliamentary] Committee on Taxation[1] (Swedish: skatteutskottet) (SkU) is a parliamentary committee in the Swedish Riksdag. The committee manages and debates matters concerning state and municipal taxes and matters concerning taxation, tax payment, and, population registration, as well as matters concerning the enforcement system. Taxes also include customs duties and taxes comparable to taxes.

The committee's Speaker is Niklas Karlsson from the Social Democratic Party and the committee's vice-Speaker is Per Söderlund from the Sweden Democrats.

List of speakers for the committee

Namn		Period	Political party
	Erik Wärnberg	1974-1983	Social Democratic Party
	Rune Carlstein	1983–1985	Social Democratic Party
	Jan Bergqvist	1985–1988	Social Democratic Party
	Lars Hedfors	1988–1991	Social Democratic Party
	Knut Wachtmeister	1991–1994	Moderate Party
	Lars Hedfors	1994–1998	Social Democratic Party
	Arne Kjörnsberg	1998–2004	Social Democratic Party
	Susanne Eberstein	2004–2006	Social Democratic Party
	Lennart Hedquist	2006–2010	Moderate Party
	Henrik von Sydow	2010–2014	Moderate Party
	Per Åsling	2014–2018	Centre Party
	Jörgen Hellman[2]	2018–2022	Social Democratic Party
	Erik Ezelius	2022	Social Democratic Party
	Niklas Karlsson	2022–	Social Democratic Party

List of vice-speakers for the committee

Name		Period	Political party	Notes
	Bo Lundgren	1988–1991	Moderate Party
	Lars Hedfors	1991-1994	Social Democratic Party
	Bo Lundgren	1994–1999	Moderate Party
	Carl Fredrik Graf	1999–2002	Moderate Party
	Anna Grönlund Krantz	2002–2006	Liberal People's Party
	Lars Johansson	2006–2010	Social Democratic Party
	Veronica Palm	2010–2011	Social Democratic Party
	Jennie Nilsson	2011–2012	Social Democratic Party
	Leif Jakobsson	2012–2016	Social Democratic Party
	Jörgen Hellman	2016–2018	Social Democratic Party
	Per Åsling[3]	2018–2022	Centre Party
	Niklas Wykman	2019–2022	Moderate Party	Second vice-Speaker
	Per Söderlund	2022–	Sweden Democrats

References

1. Utrikes namnbok: svenska myndigheter, organisationer, titlar, EU-organ och länder på engelska, tyska, franska, spanska, finska och ryska (PDF) (11th ed.). Stockholm: Utrikesdepartementet, Regeringskansliet. 2021. p. 44. ISBN 9789198657418. SELIBR 7l1vmnds54g3h922.
2. Press release: Newly elected group leaders and spokespersons from the Social Democrats Archived 2018-09-28
3. Archive from September 29, 2018 from the website smalanningen.se

External links

• Skatteutskottet/Tax Committee riksdagen.se
• (In English) committees in the Riksdag. riksdagen.se/en/