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Two in three chose not to submit tax returns
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The Norwegian Tax Administration - StatRes (discontinued), 2012

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Two in three chose not to submit tax returns

In 2012, 67 per cent of wage earners and pensioners made no changes in their tax returns and did not therefore submit them. Of the wage earners and pensioners who submitted tax returns, 64 per cent submitted them electronically.

The Norwegian Tax Administration - Key FiguresPublished 19 August 2013
2010201120122011 - 2012
Relative change
Input
Own production (NOK million)5 0375 0965 1951.9
Contracted man-year adjusted for long term-leaves5 7275 6215 597-0.4
Activities and services
Persons with tax settlement4 153 7884 357 3014 479 6862.8
Companies with tax settlement234 239239 995241 0530.4
Processed inheritance and gift cases44 59445 82646 3351.1
Processed people registrations in total1 552 6701 650 5261 744 5555.7
Calls to the Tax Hotline2 740 0452 666 1152 193 548-17.7
Calls to the Tax Hotline (per cent)83.174.673.3-1.7
Share of non-response approval of the tax return for persons64.465.367.12.8
Outcomes
Share of complaints on the tax assessment processed within 3 months88.893.286.9-6.8
Share of inheritance and gift cases processed within 6 months90.291.367.6-26.0
Filed police reports1 0078348562.6

Source: Statistics Norway

While 81 per cent of self-employed persons submitted tax returns electronically, 87 per cent of businesses used electronic submission. Electronic submission of VAT returns was made compulsory in 2012. Consequently, 98 per cent of VAT returns were electronically submitted.

Number of telephone calls falling

There were about 2.2 million telephone calls to the Tax Hotline in 2012, which was a fall of 473 000 or 22 per cent from 2011. With the rise of electronic services, telephone calls have been in decline since 2008. In 2008, for example, 48 per cent of those who applied for new tax withholding cards did so electronically. In 2012, 63 per cent of new tax withholding card applications were submitted electronically.

Results of controls and corrections

In 2012, 7 000 controls were conducted on the accounts of companies and self-employed persons, resulting in an increase of NOK 29 billion in taxable income. Furthermore, corrections done in ordinary income for persons changed by NOK 15 billion, with NOK 3 billion in favour of persons and NOK 12 billion to their disadvantage. Ordinary income for companies was changed by NOK 14 billion after corrections, of which NOK 12 billion benefited the companies.