How does the RUT deduction work for cleaning and other services?
When you hire a company for home services, such as cleaning, you have the opportunity to utilize the RUT deduction. This means you only pay 50% of the labor costs for certain household services, provided you meet the eligibility criteria for the RUT deduction. As a customer with us, you can leave this in our hands; we handle everything with the Swedish Tax Agency. You will receive your invoice with the RUT deduction applied, so you can always see exactly what you are paying for our services.
The RUT and ROT deduction are added together and are a maximum of SEK 75,000 per person per year. However, the ROT deduction may not exceed SEK 50,000 per year.
Which services are covered by the RUT deduction?
The RUT deduction applies to household-related services, including moving services, repair and maintenance of appliances, and IT equipment. The deductions apply only to labor costs and not to materials or other expenses, such as travel costs. Most of our services are eligible for the RUT deduction:
- Home cleaning
- Deep cleaning
- Move-out cleaning
- Window cleaning
- Moving services and packing assistance
- Simple handyman tasks, such as installing curtain rods
- Laundry services
- Ironing
- Gardening
Want to know more about RUT and ROT deductions? Read more on the Swedish Tax Agency’s website.
Questions about rut deduction
- You will be living in the home where the service is performed.
- You must be invoiced for the service and/or have the expenditure for the service.
- You must still have an RUT deduction left to use it. The ROT and RUT tax deductions are capped at a maximum of SEK 75,000 each per person per year. In total, an individual can receive up to SEK 150,000 in tax reductions for ROT and RUT services during the calendar year 2024.
- You must be reside in Sweden and pay taxes here (unlimited tax liability) or live abroad, but choose to be taxed in Sweden in accordance with the Income Tax Act (limited tax liability).
- You must be at least 18 years old by the end of the year.
- An estate may receive an RUT deduction, but only for services performed before the death.
The invoice you receive from us after a completed project comes with a deduction for a tax rebate. If you have already used of your entire RUT deduction, you can request an invoice without an RUT deduction.
Your employer may want to make your day-to-day life outside of work easier, in which case you can receive domestic services such as a wage benefit. The great thing about it is that you can also get a tax deduction of 50%, which means that the wage benefit in principle does not cost anything in the form of a benefit tax for you as an employee. Your employer submits your earnings and deduction information annually to the Swedish Tax Agency and you deduct it on your tax return.
Read more about the tax reduction on the Swedish Tax Agency's website.
From January 01, 2021, it was decided to extend the RUT deduction to the following four new services:
- Washing of clothing and home textiles at a laundry facility, including transport of the laundry.
- Furnishing of homes, including the assembly of furniture. Interior design services are not included, however.
- Transportation of household goods to second-hand shops, flea markets and the like, where the household goods can be reused, as well as to and from storage.
- Easier supervision of a home, such as receiving mail, watering flowers, flushing faucets and toilets.