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What receipts qualify for reimbursement

Expenses & Receipts 3 min readUpdated 5 days ago

What your receipt has to show before you submit, and the wellness checks CLVR asks you to confirm at the last step.

Before an expense can be reimbursed, your receipt has to be a real proof of payment, not just an invoice or a price list, and for wellness (friskvård) the activity also has to be one the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) allows. CLVR asks you to confirm these things on the last step of the upload flow, so it helps to know what you are confirming before you get there.

What a valid receipt needs to show

A wellness receipt should clearly show:

  • The name of the company and its organisational number
  • The amount and the VAT
  • The type of activity
  • Your name and your Swedish personal number

It also has to prove that you actually paid. An invoice on its own is not enough: it has to show that payment was made. For payments by direct debit (autogiro), you cannot be reimbursed until the cost has actually been charged.

Wellness activities the Tax Agency allows

For wellness, the activity itself must qualify under Skatteverket's rules for tax-free wellness. As a rule of thumb:

  • Exercise and simpler health care of lesser value are covered (for example gym, classes, and treatments like massage or acupuncture).
  • You cannot use the allowance to rent or buy equipment.
  • You cannot use it for membership fees, theory courses, diplomas, medical care, or beauty care.
  • For activities with no exercise element, such as massage, each occasion may cost at most SEK 1,000 to stay tax-free.
Tip.

On the wellness checklist, select What are the Tax Agency guidelines? to open a panel with these rules, examples of what is and is not covered, and a link straight to the relevant Skatteverket page.

What you confirm at the last step

On the Complete the checklist step (Step 3 of the upload flow), what you see depends on the category.

For wellness, you confirm three things with toggles, all of which must be on before you can submit:

  • Is your activity approved for wellness under the Tax Agency guidelines?
  • Is your receipt valid?
  • Does the receipt show that you have paid for the activity?

For categories that do not need these extra checks, you instead see a short message that the category needs no additional checks and that you are good to go. There are no toggles to switch in that case.

Once everything that applies is confirmed, select Submit expense to send the report for review.

Note.

Which categories your company offers, and which wellness rules apply, depend on your company and its country. The wellness checks described here are part of the Swedish rules.

Troubleshooting

  • The Submit expense button does not respond. On a wellness report, all three toggles have to be on. CLVR shows a short message under any toggle you still need to confirm.
  • You are not sure an activity qualifies. Open What are the Tax Agency guidelines? on the checklist and check the examples, or follow the Skatteverket link there. If you are still unsure, ask your HR team.
  • Your receipt is only an invoice. An invoice alone is not accepted. Submit a receipt that shows the payment was actually made.
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