Ingmar Bergman vs. Skattemyndigheten

Den helt överskuggande nyheten i Sverige idag har varit Ingmar Bergmans död. Detta har även varit en av huvudnyheterna i flertalet andra länder. I CNN’s kommentar nämns Ingmar Bergmans tvekamp med svenska Skattemyndigheten (ett verkligt schackspel med döden).

“Bergman also waged a fight against real-life tormentors: Sweden's powerful tax authorities.

In 1976, during a rehearsal at the Royal Dramatic Theater, police came to take Bergman away for interrogation about tax evasion. The director, who had left all finances to be handled by a lawyer, was questioned for hours while his home was searched. When released, he was forbidden to leave the country. [...] The experience made him go into voluntary exile in Germany, to the embarrassment of the Swedish authorities. After nine years, he returned to Stockholm, his longtime base.”

Underbar och ohyggligt träffsäker benämning på svenska Skatteverket; ”real-life tormentors”. [TIH lyfter på hatten för skribenten på CNN]