Sambandet mellan redovisning och beskattning : Koppling eller frikoppling

Sammanfattning: Since January 1st 2005, public companies within the European Union shall prepare their consolidated accounts in conformity with the international accounting standards. The adopted accounting standards are IASB’s IAS/IFRS completed with interpretations. Furthermore, member states may permit or require public companies to prepare their annual accounts according to IAS/IFRS. Sweden has not yet given companies the ability to use IAS/IFRS in the annual accounts due to taxation difficulties the strong relationship between accounting and taxation brings. The relationship between accounting and taxation can be divided into three different categories, material where the accounting regulations govern the taxation, conventional where specific taxation regulations affect the accounting, and no relation where the accounting and taxation regulations are separated. The purpose with our thesis is to find out whether or not the relation be-tween accounting and taxation can remain when accounting standards get internationalized. The study has been divided in two perspectives, taxation and accounting perspective, to identify similarities and differences whether the relation between accounting and taxation can remain. To fulfill the purpose, six semi-standardized interviews where performed The study showed that there are no noticeable differences between the tax and accounting perspective. All respondents except for Skatteverket believed that a disengagement between accounting and taxes where not preferable when implementing IAS/IFRS. The respondents believed that in the future Swedish generally accepted accounting principles should define the relation between accounting and taxation. The respondents have the opinion that Sweden should use article five in the regulation of the European parliament and of the council. However, the respondents argue for companies being divided by size and interests of internationalization rather than public or non-public.