SEK 1650 per year. Such a large tax cut is now waiting for those living in Sweden's northernmost municipalities. The reason is that the Center Party has received one of its proposals in the budget negotiations conducted between the Liberal Party, the Center Party and the Socialist Democratic Party and the Government Party.

Reduced tax revenue of SEK 1.35 billion

The tax reduction will start to apply from the turn of the year and will lead to the state losing SEK 1.35 billion a year in reduced tax revenues.

- We see a tax gap between city and country. Sparsely populated municipalities have much higher municipal taxes than the rest of Sweden, and at the same time, precisely those municipal residents receive poorer service back. Then we think it is reasonable to make a targeted tax cut to the almost nine hundred thousand people living in the 80 most vulnerable municipalities in Sweden, says Center Party Party leader Annie Lööf.

About 830,000 people will receive a tax reduction of at most SEK 137 per month. These people live in the northern and western parts of Sweden in what is called support areas A and B.

Lööf: It's a first step

The Center Party is behind the proposal. Annie Lööf presented it already during the summer Almedals week, but several changes have taken place compared to the party's original proposal. Above all, the tax cut is smaller than the Center Party proposed. From the beginning, the party wanted to reduce the tax by SEK 310, but it was thus slightly less than half, SEK 137.

In addition, several of the municipalities with larger cities have been excluded from the reform. Residents in Borlänge, Falun, Luleå, Sundsvall and Umeå do not receive part of the tax cuts, just like the southern parts of Sweden.

- This is a first step. A step that means that we lower the tax for people with ordinary income, says party leader Annie Lööf (C).