SwedenSkatteverket
Transfer pricing: guidance stresses identifying the actual transaction
Skatteverket’s August guidance update discusses HFD case 1334-25: formal contracts and stated prices alone do not define the transaction to be examined.
By Taxxa AI OyPublished 12 August 2026
Skatteverket updated its transfer-pricing guidance on 12 August 2026 to discuss HFD case 1334-25. It explains that the correction rule can cover agreed terms without a formal contract and can apply to economically significant terms beyond the prices of goods or services. The case concerned a Swedish company cancelling an electricity contract after consulting its parent and paying resulting damages.Skatteverket
The related guidance stresses identifying and delineating the transaction before comparing its terms with an independent-party transaction. Risk allocation is a significant part of that assessment. Skatteverket also says the judgment’s treatment of the electricity-contract risk is difficult to interpret, so the update should not be presented as settling every risk-allocation question.Skatteverket
Document the actual conduct, counterparties and risk allocation before assessing whether the terms satisfy the arm’s-length principle.