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Tax deduction cards and tax deductions

As an employer, you have to retrieve your employees' tax deduction cards and deduct tax on their salary payments. 

  • Tax deduction cards for your employees

    You must retrieve your employees’ tax deduction cards electronically.
  • As an employer, you are obliged to make withholding tax deductions

    Withholding tax must be deducted before salary payments are made.
  • Carrying out attachment of earnings

  • How to deduct the correct amount of tax

    Step-by-step, we show you how to deduct the right amount of tax
  • Advance rates and car rates

  • PAYE (Pay As You Earn) for foreign workers in Norway

    From 2019, a new and simplified tax scheme will take effect. The scheme is meant for you as a foreign worker in Norway. Most new foreign workers will fall under this scheme the first year they work in Norway.
  • Documentation and program for calculating withholding tax

  • Tax deduction account

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