“New tax threatens 1 000 jobs” – Svenska Dagbladet

the Tax applies only to appliances that are sold through dealers in Sweden, while the foreign companies don’t have to. It makes “competition distorted to the detriment of trade in Sweden”.

In the Swedish towns, where there are now large vitvarulager threatened jobs as the Swedish chains can be forced to move their logistics centers abroad in order to cope with the competition. It can lead to increased unemployment for the over 1, 000 employees at the vitvarulagren.

the Debaters want to see that also foreign goods become taxable.

“Although the environment will be losers, as goods must be transported longer roads,” writes the debaters.