Technical Assistance Reports

Sweden: Technical Assistance Report-Corporate Income Tax Gap Estimation Based on Operational Audits

December 24, 2025

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International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept. "Sweden: Technical Assistance Report-Corporate Income Tax Gap Estimation Based on Operational Audits", Technical Assistance Reports 2025, 107 (2025), accessed 12/26/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229031936.019

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Summary

This report estimates Sweden’s Corporate Income Tax (CIT) gap for 2016–2023. Using a bottom-up approach based on operational audits and comparisons with random audits. The average CIT gap is about 2.2% of potential CIT.

Subject: Auditing, Corporate income tax, Income, Income and capital gains taxes, Income tax systems, National accounts, Personal income tax, Public financial management (PFM), Revenue performance assessment, Tax gap, Taxes

Keywords: Auditing, Bottom-up approach, Corporate income tax, Corporate Income Tax Gap, Heckman Sample Selection model, Income, Income and capital gains taxes, Income tax systems, Machine learning model., Operational audits, Personal income tax, Random audits, Tax gap