About Occendra
We believe ambition, not barriers, should decide how far a business can go. Occendra exists to clear the barriers, so a business outside Europe can sell into the EU, the UK and Switzerland without building a company there. We are the established party that takes on the customs and VAT responsibility others step back from, and we carry it ourselves.
Two decades in customs & VAT · Big Four background · Established in the EU, UK and Switzerland
Why Occendra exists
Occendra began with a problem its founder kept meeting from the inside. Across nearly twenty years in indirect tax and customs, most of it in-house within industry, Mikael saw the same wall again and again. Businesses needed to import and export across the EU and the UK without being established there, and the support to do it was hard to find. Indirect customs representatives were reluctant to take on the role, because the liability became theirs, and a willing, established partner was rarely there when it mattered.
Occendra was founded in 2026, in Sweden, to be that partner. Not to advise from the sidelines, but to step in as the established party, take the customs and VAT responsibility on, and carry it. So the next business with ambition and goods to move does not hit the same wall.
What we do, and what makes us different
We act as your importer of record, exporter of record and indirect customs representative, and we handle the VAT that comes with it. The difference is simple: we do not only advise. We hold the European establishment, file the declarations in our own name, and carry the legal responsibility for them. A shipment no broker will sign for is exactly the shipment we are built to move. We are not a freight company, and we do not want to replace your forwarder. We are the customs, representation and VAT layer that plugs into whoever you already use.
Meet the founder
Mikael, Managing Director
LL.M., specialisation in tax
Occendra is led by Mikael, who has spent close to twenty years in indirect tax and customs. Most of that has been in-house, inside large multinationals across technology, food and premium consumer goods, with a period in Big Four advisory at Deloitte along the way. That mix matters. He has both advised on the rules and lived with them as the business that has to move the goods.
He holds an LL.M. with a specialisation in tax. Over his career he has recovered millions in tax that would otherwise have leaked away, money lost to overpayments and missed reclaims. It is hands-on experience, built where the consequences are real, and it is what Occendra is built on.
Where we operate
Occendra clears goods into and out of the European Union, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Each is a separate customs territory with its own rules, and each requires a locally established party to import or export. Today we operate from our Swedish base, our established entry point into the EU. Our United Kingdom and Swiss operations come online around the launch of this site, so that every market we serve is covered by an established party rather than a workaround.
How we work
How we work follows from why we exist. We keep the operation lean, with no layers of administration to slow a decision, so when goods are stuck we move quickly. We pressure-test the classification, value and origin before we put our name on a declaration, because the responsibility is ours and yours. And we work alongside your freight forwarder or broker, not against them. The result is one accountable partner for customs and VAT, and a position that is designed rather than discovered.
Clear the barriers in your way
If you have goods to move and no entity in the market, that is what we are here for. Tell us about your goods and your routes, and we will take it from there.