Increased tax in three warmland municipalities next year

The biggest increase, a penny and fifty öre, will be on Hammarö, then Storfors comes with 68 öre and Grums with 48 öre.

In Grums, the tax increase provides new income of almost SEK 9 million. Of this, SEK 5.8 million will go to the school and about three million to the social service. But despite the extra money, the municipality is forced to save within the school area by, for example, closing the school in Skruvstad.

In total, Grum's municipality will have to save SEK 21 million, according to the municipal council Leif Haraldsson (S).

At Hammarö, which raises the tax by a penny and fifty pence, you will save SEK 58 million. Without the tax increase, the savings requirement would have reached SEK 120 million and this was not possible from an operational perspective, according to the municipal council Bo Henriksson (M).

Savings requirements are also waiting in other Värmland municipalities, although in some municipalities it is unclear how large the savings requirements will be during next year. Munkfors municipality is the only municipality in Värmland to respond that there will be no savings next year. The planned surplus is even slightly larger than budgeted, according to Mathias Lindquist.