The Tax Agency demands a total of SEK 6.4 million from Liseberg.
The background is the free ride passes and try-on packages that the amusement park offered its employees and their relatives, reports Göteborgs-Posten.
Liseberg does not share the authority’s assessment and will appeal the decision.
The Tax Agency demands the amusement park Liseberg in the amount of millions.
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For several years, the Liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg has offered employees one free ride pass per day and ten trial packages per season. The packages consist of both entrance and
ride pass and can be used by friends or family together with the employee.
“The purpose has been to increase the employees’ product knowledge and at the same time acquire important knowledge about the business,” writes Liseberg’s communications manager Clara Rosendahl to Göteborgs-Posten.
Claimed for millions
However, the Tax Agency does not agree that the benefits would be an essential part of the work. The authority has therefore decided to raise the price of the amusement park by a total of approximately SEK 5.7 million for the ride passes and packages.
In addition, a tax supplement of SEK 836,000 is added because Liseberg is not considered to have kept sufficient records of who collected the benefits, which brings the total amount to SEK 6.4 million.
The answer: “Unreasonable”
The amusement park does not share the Tax Agency’s assessment and will appeal the decision, according to Rosendahl.
“Liseberg’s view is that the opportunity for our employees to experience the park is an important prerequisite for being able to carry out their work in a professional manner,” she writes to the newspaper.
When asked what the rate increase means for Liseberg’s finances, the communications manager replied:
“Liseberg has so far paid the Tax Agency’s demands, even if we perceive it as unreasonable. It will affect the year’s results negatively, but our forecasts for the year are still satisfactory”.
