Direct report · Autumn budget 2021

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15 Sep11.06

Hello and welcome to SVT's live reporting on the budget!

Some points for the day:

About 08.30.

Minister of Finance Magdalena Andersson (S) holds a press conference.

About 10.00-12.00.

Press conferences with several opposition parties and the government's co-operation parties.

About 12.40.

The Minister of Finance brings the budget to the Riksdag.

The traditional budget walk is missed due to the coronavirus.

13.00.

Debate in the Riksdag.

Follow the live reporting in the feed below or watch SVT's broadcast in the player above.

SVT · Patrik Dahlin

3 min06.42

Minister of Finance Magdalena Andersson will defend the tax cuts by saying that it stimulates the economy, according to Marmorstein.

SVT · Victor Munther

4 min06.42

The purpose of the tax cuts is, according to C and L, to increase the incentives to go from grants to jobs.

Magdalena Andersson instead calls it a corona bonus - a compensation for additional costs as a result of the pandemic.

- But I perceive this as a creative way of defending that you have agreed to an employment tax deduction, says Marmorstein.

SVT · Victor Munther

6 min06.40

C and L have implemented income tax cuts of just over SEK 13.5 billion in 2021. Who is covered by this?

- It is above all low- and middle-income earners who work full time, says Marmorstein.

SVT · Victor Munther

7 min06.38

Last year, Sweden had a central government debt of 35 percent.

Next year, it is expected to be 42 percent.

But 42 percent is still small compared to other EU countries, according to Marmorstein.

SVT · Victor Munther

8 min06.38

Where does the money come from?

- You borrow, quite simply, says Marmorstein.

SVT · Victor Munther

8 min06.37

- Almost as much on welfare.

Just under ten billion on the environment and climate.

- Then you keep the increased unemployment fund for two years.

It costs close to six billion.

SVT · Victor Munther

9 min06.36

- Just over 30 billion goes to tax cuts in jobs and entrepreneurship, says Marmorstein.

SVT · Victor Munther

9 min06.36

The Minister of Finance, Magdalena Andersson, has said that the government wants to invest SEK 105 billion to restart the Swedish economy.

- The ambition is to kick-start the economy after the historic landslide we had as a result of the pandemic, says Elisabeth Marmorstein.

SVT · Victor Munther

15 min06.30

Very soon SVT's political reporter Elisabeth Marmorstein visits Morgonstudion and tells, among other things, who is the winner and loser in the budget.

SVT · Victor Munther