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Sweden's finance minister admits tax blooper
Sep 16, 2009, 15:30 GMT
Stockholm - Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg Wednesday admitted he had made a faulty claim in his latest income tax return - although he himself introduced the changes back in 2007.
'It was a mistake,' Borg told Swedish media, adding that he had made the deductions for two homes according to the old rules.
The Swedish Tax Agency said Borg was to receive some 6,000 kronor (850 dollars dollars) less than he had estimated.
Borg was named finance minister in October 2006 when Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's four-party coalition took office.
The finance minister's family lives in Katrineholm, some 140 kilometres south-west of Stockholm.
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