In connection with the move to our Azure-based operating environment, we would like to remind you of the obligation to report the storage of accounting and financial information outside Sweden to the Swedish Tax Agency. According to the Swedish Accounting Standards Board’s guidelines, both accounting systems and financial information in electronic form may, under certain conditions, be stored outside Sweden’s borders. The requirement is that the party responsible for bookkeeping notifies the Swedish Tax Agency of the storage location, that the information can be printed immediately in Sweden, and that the Swedish Tax Agency or the Swedish Customs Service can be granted immediate electronic access to the information upon request throughout the entire retention period. The cloud service provided via Azure stores all data within Europe; more information below.

To fulfill this requirement, you can write the information in a document that contais the following:

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Notification regarding the storage of machine-readable media within the EU

Company information

Place of storage

SaaS Azure: Western Europe, backup in Central Europe.

Microsoft Azure. North Europe region. Ireland. (primary).

Microsoft Azure. West Europe region. Netherlands (backups).

Immidiate access

Electronic access in Sweden to information stored abroad - Yes

Printing in Sweden of the information in a standard readable format - Yes

The information can be provided as a data file - Yes

If you wish, the notification can be supplemented with information in the “Reason for notification” section, but this is not required.

The notification should be sent to the Swedish Tax Agency, Tax Unit 53, Box 2825, 40320 Gothenburg