In high school he attended technical department of Sven Eriksonsgymnasiet where liked to visit all parties but always put education first: before a test he lied that got sick and have to stay home. While back in primary school, Särlaskolan in Borås, Lorentzon was telling classmates that he wants to sell one match box to every Chinese and became a billionaire. In April 2019 Lorentzon was assigned an immigrants' integration issues expert in a Moderate Party commission New Swedish Model created by Ulf Kristersson. In the spring of 2015 Lorentzon was given an honorary doctorate at Chalmers University of Technology. Īs a result, in 2014 Lorentzon was named International Swede of the Year and in 2015 got an award Affärsbragden (The Business Achievement) from the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. He responded by claiming that it is difficult to attract venture capital to his ideas in Sweden, as well as pointing to the taxes he and his company pays in Sweden. According to media reports, Martin owes the Swedish tax office 6 million euro for 2007–2010, during which he filed a zero-income declaration. Spotify was also re-registered by that time in Luxembourg, where income tax is low.
In 2006 he paid 1.4 million euro as taxes. In 2005, he re-registered TradeDoubler on Cyprus and thereby reduced the tax payment by $9 million. Situated in Offshore financial centres: Rosello is registered on Cyprus, Amaltea is in Luxembourg. Lorentzon's companies that are affiliated with Spotify and Telia are In April 2013, media debated Lorentzon's relationship with Swedish tax office. In 2016 he was elected as a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences under the Department of Education and Research, which promotes contact and exchange between business, research, and government. In 2013 he joined Prince Daniel's Fellowship project and now visits upper secondary schools, universities and university colleges around Sweden to inspire young people to get involved in entrepreneurship. Lorentzon suffers from Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Since 2017, he is in relationship with a Swedish entrepreneur of Iranian origin Tara Derakshan while being an investor in her startup, a perfume subscription box Sniph. He owns an apartment in the ski resort Åre. He lives in Vasastan in Stockholm, in the same three-room apartment since 2005. Lorentzon has an older brother and one more older sibling. His mother Brita (born 21 September 1936) worked as a teacher, father Sven (born 1 July 1932) is an economist. Martin Lorentzon was born on 1 April 1969 in the south of Sweden in the village Åsenhöga in the Gnosjö region of Småland province, but in February 1970 family moved to Borås, where he grew up in the Hestra quarter. Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law
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