Why employer contributions need to be lowered

With less than three weeks to go before the elections, we welcome you to this seminar on how reducing social security contributions can reduce unemployment and promote entrepreneurship and job creation in the service sector. The seminar will be attended by representatives from different parts of the business community and from politics.

Introduced in 1960 to finance individual social benefits for employees, the employer contribution is now almost ten times higher than when it was introduced, and the link between the contribution and social benefits is increasingly weak. Almost 40% of the levy is a pure tax on labor.

Employer contributions make up a quarter of the cost of hiring for companies. Swedish social security contributions are among the highest in the EU, affecting job creation, the ability of Swedish companies to compete internationally, and the ability of people outside the labor market to find work.

Date: August 23, 12.00-13.30. Arrival registration and light lunch will be served from 11.30.
Location: Almega, Sturegatan 11.

Participants:

Confederation of Swedish Enterprise - Sven Olov-Daunfeldt, Chief Economist
Företagarna - Patrick Krassén, tax policy expert
Visita - Thomas Jakobsson, Chief Economist
Swedish Trade Federation- Henrik Ekelund Business Policy Expert
TechSverige - Christina Ramm-Ericson, Head of Industrial Policy
Almega - Patrick Joyce, Chief Economist

Member of Parliament (S), Åsa Westlund, Chairman of the Riksdag Committee on Finance
Member of Parliament (M), Niklas Wykman, tax policy spokesperson
Member of Parliament (C), Martin Ådahl, economic policy spokesperson

Moderator: Helena Blomquist, journalist

Limited number of seats in the room. Pre-registration is required.
The seminar is free of charge and no registration or cancellation fee will be charged.
The seminar is open to the public.

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Reduced social security contributions and a reform of the employment service create more jobs

Sweden has 330 000 unemployed. At the same time, service companies are finding it difficult to recruit the people they need. The reform of the employment service, where individual actors are given the task of quickly training and matching the unemployed to vacant jobs, needs to be implemented quickly. Reduced employer contributions can help service companies create more jobs for people who are outside the labor market. Experts from Almega and the parties' regional top candidates will be present. Seminars will take place in four locations during the last week of August.

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