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Who Really Pays Sweden's Bank Tax?

The red-green win revives a tax on bank profits, and who pays is less obvious than either side admits. On election night, a few hours after the polling stations closed, my phone buzzed with a message from a friend who owns a two-room flat in Sundbyberg. No greeting, just one line: "So my mortgage goes up now?" He hadn't asked about crime, migration or healthcare, the topics that filled the debate studios all summer. He asked about the monthly transfer to his bank. For most households I know, that is where politics actually lands. And this time, he might have a point. The result. The red-green opposition won 176 seats against the Tidö parties ' 173. Ulf Kristersson has resigned, and Speaker Andreas Norlén has asked Magdalena Andersson to explore forming a government. TT has already sketched what that could mean for household budgets. A higher child allowance looks close to certain, according to Länsförsäkringar's private economist Stefan Westerberg, since the Soc...

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