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SwedenSkatteverket

Food producers outside staff-register duty, pages clarify

Producers such as farmers, butchers, fishermen and food manufacturers are outside the register duty; simple processing includes cutting meat.

By Taxxa AI OyPublished 28 October 2026

Payroll & Labour

Industry: Wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco

Businesses in food and tobacco wholesaling must keep a daily staff registerSkatteverket showing who is active in the business and at what times. Active means more than employeesSkatteverket: anyone who in any way takes part in the business must be enteredSkatteverket, every day, on an ongoing basisSkatteverket. The operator remains responsible even when someone else keeps the register on their behalf.Skatteverket

Wholesaling in this context means resale to someone other than consumers, together with related acquisition, simple processing, packaging, holding and delivery.Skatteverket Because the definition turns on resaleSkatteverket, producers and similar operations are not covered by the register dutySkatteverket. Skatteverket names farmers, butchers, fishermen, berry pickers and food manufacturers as examples of businesses that fall outsideSkatteverket. Simple processing includes, for example, cutting meat products.Skatteverket

In doubtful cases the Swedish Standard Industrial Classification can help. The pages now point to SNI 2025 instead of SNI 2007Skatteverket Skatteverket: codes 95.311-95.313 for vehicle service, 96.210, 96.220 and 96.230 for body and beauty care, and 46.210 and 46.310-46.390 for food and tobacco wholesaling. Other codes can also be relevant. The classification is only guidance.Skatteverket What matters is the activity actually carried on, not the company's registered SNI codeSkatteverket, and ultimately how the activity fits the statutory definitionsSkatteverket.

Two further reference updates were made on the same pages. The body and beauty care page now describes medically justified foot care by reference to 10 kap. 7 § third paragraph of the Mervärdesskattelag, replacing the repealed mervärdeskattelagen paragraph. The other two pages carry only the SNI renumbering.

The exemptions are unchanged.Skatteverket No register is needed in a sole business or a closely held company where only the operator, a spouse and children under 16, or only the manager, spouse and children under 16, are active.Skatteverket No register is needed for mixed operations where 75 percent or more of the business is activity that does not trigger the dutySkatteverket, normally assessed on how turnover splits between the parts. A sports shop with a small food-wholesale turnover, a car dealer with a small workshop turnover, or a clothes shop with a small nail-care turnover can therefore fall outside.

Advisers to farm, fish, butchery and food-manufacturing clients should check whether a client kept a register only because of production or simple meat cutting. Where the business is production rather than resale, the clarified definition points against a duty, subject to the rest of the operation and the mixed-activity rule.Skatteverket

Legal basis: skatteförfarandelagen (2011:1244) 39 kap. 2 § on the definitions and the mixed-activity rule, Mervärdesskattelag (2023:200) 10 kap. 7 §, and prop. 2017/18:82 on producers and simple processingRiksdagen.

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