Budget Bill for 2008 Putting Sweden to work – increasing opportunities

In the Budget Bill for 2008, the Government is presenting further reforms aimed at creating clearer incentives to work and more and better ways back for people who are now outside the labour market. The Bill proposes further reductions in income taxes, above all for low and middle income earners, by means of a strengthened in-work tax credit worth SEK 11 billion. This will give most income groups a thousand kronor more per month.Sickness absence, which has grown in recent decades, will be reduced by an ambitious investment in rehabilitation. The return to work will be facilitated by means