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            <title><![CDATA[Municipalities that raise taxes will face a penalty fee for three years]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Municipalities and regions that raise taxes will have to pay a fee - for three years. This is what a new investigation suggests. Paying this 25 percent will be a punishment, says investigator Annika Wallenskog at a press conference.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:49:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Government Proposes Tax Brake to Prevent Municipal Tax Hikes]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Government wants to prevent municipalities and regions from raising taxes. An investigator will now propose how a tax brake can be introduced – and how tax cuts should be rewarded.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:38:53 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[These are the municipalities that raise taxes next year]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Three rural municipalities plus Stockholm will increase the municipal tax next year. The difference between the highest and lowest municipal tax burden is now over six kronor per hundred, according to new figures from SCB.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:10:04 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Despite Billion-Lift – Still Tough for Municipalities]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[From billion deficits to a clear brightening. Next year, the country's municipalities and regions are expected to make a combined profit of 28 billion kronor. However, the situation remains critical in some areas, according to SKR's economic report.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:30:51 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Every Tenth Preschool May Be Forced to Close]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Low birth rates may force more than one in ten preschools to close by 2027. That's what Annika Wallenskog, chief economist at the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, SKR, tells DN.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 23:18:43 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Larger Deficit than Expected for the Regions]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Regions' billion deficit grows, according to the first forecasts for 2024. They became significantly worse than what we had counted on, says Annika Wallenskog, chief economist at SKR, to Ekot.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2024 05:23:34 GMT</pubDate>
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