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Key contacts
Chairman of the board, Partner: Jari Burmeister
Head of Transfer Pricing, Partner: Mikael Jacobsen
Managing Director, CEO: Therése Østergaard
Quick facts
Number of advisers

70+

Network memberships

Taxand

Languages

Swedish, English

Key practice areas
General corporate tax
Indirect tax
Tax
Tax controversy
Transactional tax
Transfer pricing
Firm overview

Skeppsbron Skatt is Sweden’s leading independent tax advisor with about 80 employees at our offices in Stockholm, Malmö and Gothenburg. We are a full service advisor and we handle all types of tax issues for both large and small companies.

Full service and independence
We possess the skill and expertise to deal with tax issues of all kinds. We guarantee that our advice is independent of other advisory services, such as audit, for example. We offer a unique alternative to the tax advice provided by law firms and accounting firms.

Sector-specific expertise
We have the sector-specific expertise needed to provide advice that is tailored to our customers’ business – advice that adds value.

Specific advice
We provide clear, specific advice, whatever the question. We give honest answers and have long experience of advising on a broad spectrum of complex tax issues.

Global network
Skeppsbron Skatt is part of Taxand, the world’s leading international network of independent tax advisers, which currently includes over 2,000 tax consultants in about 60 countries. This enables us to offer high-quality advice regardless of where in the world you as a customer have your business.

Skeppsbron Skatt, a part of Aspia
Through the merger with Aspia, we are a part of Sweden's new leading business partner for business-related services. This means that our customer gets access to an additional 1,450 specialists in payroll management, accounting and consulting in more than 70 locations throughout Sweden and specialists throughout the Nordic region.

Sector expertise
  • Automotive
  • Banking
  • Construction and materials
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Financial services
  • Food and beverage
  • Gaming
  • Industrials
  • Investment management
  • Oil and gas
  • Pharma and life sciences
  • Real estate
  • Tech and telecoms

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Other offices

Skeppsbron 5
211 20 Malmö
Sweden

T: +46 40 10 71 90
E: info@skeppsbronskatt.se
W: https://skeppsbronskatt.se/

Norra Hamngatan 40,
411 06 Gothenburg
Sweden

T: +46 8 522 441 00
E: info@skeppsbronskatt.se
W: Skeppsbron Skatt - Always personal

Address:
Skeppsbron 20
11130 Stockholm
Tel:+46 8 522 441 00 Email:Contact Us Web Address:https://skeppsbronskatt.se/en/
2026 Edition
General corporate tax
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Indirect tax
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Tax controversy
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EY
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KPMG
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Mannheimer Swartling
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Svalner Atlas Advisors
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Unum Tax
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Baker McKenzie
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PwC
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Bird & Bird
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Forvis Mazars
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Transfer pricing
Tier 1
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Deloitte
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EY
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KPMG
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PwC
7 practice areas
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Skeppsbron Skatt
6 practice areas
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Svalner Atlas Advisors
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Baker McKenzie
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Overview

Skeppsbron Skatt is a leading independent tax firm on the Swedish market. It has evolved its versatile corporate service line to include corporate tax, tax litigation, transfer pricing and VAT. Skeppsbron Skatt is part of the Aspia Group for accounting and pay-roll provision advice. Key practitioners are corporate specialists, Mac Berlin, Jari Burmeister, and Niklas Bång. Björn Johansson is known for compensation mandates, while Joakim Wittkull is the firm’s litigator. Partner Mikael Jacobsen is the transfer pricing specialist.  

The firm assisted a multinational in debt restructuring, bond debt reconfiguration and group redesign as lead counsel. It also successfully changed the lawfulness of levying Swedish withholding tax on dividends paid to foreign investors. A rare migration project in the insurance sector was a keynote highlight.  

Director Mari Ehrenhöök joined the Stockholm office from Deloitte in February 2025, and fellow director Sven Johannesson joined in January 2025. Outbound practitioners Axel Thorell, Michael Merdoyo, Alexander Sjöwall and Debora Eriksson departed 

Client feedback

‘’Professional and very competent in this area. They are very easy to work with and make things as easy as it goes.

‘’Knowledgeable and have good contacts in a wider tax group.’’ 

‘’Great knowledge and attention to details.’’

Linked Reviews
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Skeppsbron Skatt is a leading independent tax firm on the Swedish market. It has evolved its versatile corporate service line to include corporate tax, tax litigation, transfer pricing and VAT. Skeppsbron Skatt is part of the Aspia Group for accounting and pay-roll provision advice. Key practitioners are corporate specialists, Mac Berlin, Jari Burmeister, and Niklas Bång. Björn Johansson is known for compensation mandates, while Joakim Wittkull is the firm’s litigator. Partner Mikael Jacobsen is the transfer pricing specialist.

The firm provided structuring advice pertaining to a Swedish spin-off assignment. It also relayed transfer pricing policy and related corporate tax advice to an intra-group company structure.

Litigation director Malin Asplund and fellow director Markus Zung arrived in 2022. Outgoing partner Erik Frösdal departed to Unum Tax in March 2022.

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