Answer to submitter. Political decisions are required to be able to change the address of the deceased

Håkan Söderström is calling for in a submitter in DN that the estate should have an official address at the Swedish Tax Agency, which is shared with other authorities and companies.

The task the Swedish Tax Agency has today is just as Håkan Söderström describes noting the correct address for living persons. Once a person has passed away, the population records must not change the address of the person. A deceased person thus retains his latest public record address forever in our register. This is the address the outside world has access to after a person has died.

In our own taxation operations we can register a death estate that may only be used for tax purposes, but it must not be registered in the population records and must not be announced to others.

For those who need Changing the estate’s postal address, for example if an apartment has been terminated, therefore needs to pass the mail described in the submitter, to avoid contacting all different postal intermediaries.

In order to change the Swedish Tax Agency’s assignment, political decisions are required. It is not we as an authority can decide on themselves.

On the other hand, we want to provide as good information as possible based on the conditions that apply, so that no one misses, for example, that you need to submit mail. We run a website together with the Swedish Social Insurance Agency and the Pension Authority called survivor guide.se As many people think is helpful. There are checklists with a reminder of things that need to be done both in the short and longer term, for those who are in grief and at the same time have to take care of the estate after loved ones.

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