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An interactive tool that applies published Finnish statutory thresholds to the figures you type: the VAT period you are entitled to, whether an auditor must be appointed, the reporting your payroll creates, and the dates everything falls due.

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What this tool does, and what it deliberately does not

An estimator on an accountant's website is only useful if you can trust what it is doing. So here it is in plain terms.

It does

  • Apply the VAT-period thresholds in the Finnish VAT Act to the turnover you enter.
  • Count how many of the three statutory audit thresholds your figures exceed, and say what follows under the Auditing Act.
  • List the reporting obligations that arise from having employees or trading with businesses in other EU states.
  • Recompute every annual deadline from the month your financial year ends, because in Finland those dates are counted from the year end and not from December.
  • Estimate document volume, clearly labelled as an estimate, so you can see the shape of a month's work.

It does not

  • Calculate the tax your company owes. That needs your actual figures.
  • Estimate a saving. No tool and no adviser can promise you will pay less tax, and anyone showing you a savings number from six inputs is selling something.
  • Quote a fee. Fees follow a written scope, after a conversation.
  • Replace advice on your company. The thresholds are the common case; extensions, group structures and non-standard financial years change them.
  • Send anything anywhere. Nothing you type here leaves your browser.

The statutory audit test is a two-year test: an auditor may be left unappointed only if at most one threshold was exceeded in both the completed financial year and the one before it. This tool can only see the year you type, so treat a "may be omitted" result as a question to check, not an answer.

The estimator

Your profile

Scope & deadline estimator

Live · nothing is sent anywhere
What does the company do?

Low document volume, but cross-border VAT on services needs attention if you invoice outside Finland.

Annual net turnoverEUR 200k
Employees on payroll2
Financial year ends

VAT period

Monthly

Calendar-year turnover above EUR 100,000.

Statutory audit

May be omitted

0 of three thresholds exceeded. An auditor may be omitted only if this also held in the preceding financial year.

Bookkeeping volume

~52 docs / month

Estimate from turnover and activity, not a measurement of your books.

Estimated monthly workload over a year

Documents and filing events. An estimate, not a quotation.

Estimated monthly workload: bookkeeping documents, payroll events and statutory filings for each month of the year.
MonthBookkeepingPayrollFilings
Jan5244
Feb5244
Mar5544
Apr5246
May5244
Jun4445
Jul2944
Aug3645
Sep5744
Oct5744
Nov5544
Dec5244

Obligations this profile creates

  • Double-entry bookkeeping and annual financial statements — every Finnish limited company, regardless of size (Kirjanpitolaki 1336/1997)
  • Corporate income tax return (6B) — within four months of the financial year end
  • VAT return, monthly — Calendar-year turnover above EUR 100,000.
  • Incomes Register reporting — within five calendar days of every pay date
  • TyEL pension and statutory employer insurances — reported and paid alongside payroll
  • EU recapitulative statement — not triggered by this profile
  • Appointment of an auditor — not triggered by this profile

Your annual deadlines

  • Financial statements prepared30 April
  • Corporate income tax return (6B)30 April
  • Annual General Meeting30 June
  • Financial statements to the Trade Register31 August

Counted from a financial year ending in Dec. Extensions and non-standard years change these dates.

Nothing you have entered above is transmitted. It is used only to fill in the first two fields of the enquiry form, which you can edit.

This estimator applies published Finnish statutory thresholds to the figures you type. It does not calculate tax, it does not quote a fee, and it does not estimate a saving. Its output is a starting point for a conversation, not advice on your company, and the thresholds it uses should be confirmed for your financial year before you rely on them.

Calendar

The statutory year, whatever your financial year end

The same deadlines on a dial. Select a month and the annual markers move with it.

Finnish statutory year

JANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPOCTNOVDECFY ENDSDECEMBER

Annual deadlines for a Finnish limited company, counted in months from the end of its financial year. Select one to see the provision it comes from.

Every month, regardless of financial year

  • Incomes Register reportWithin 5 calendar days of each pay date
  • Employer's separate reportMonthly, by the 5th
  • VAT return and paymentMonthly, by the 12th
  • Corporate prepayment instalmentMonthly, by the 23rd

Dates shown are the statutory deadlines for the common case: a Finnish limited company on a monthly VAT period. A quarterly or annual VAT period, an extension, or a non-standard financial year changes them. This is a calendar, not advice on your company.

Next step

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Before you send this

  • Who receives it. Countex Oy, Business ID 0149516-4, c/o Miettinen, Pohjoisranta 2 E 13, 00170 Helsinki, Finland. We are the controller.
  • Why. To answer your enquiry and, if you want one, arrange a first consultation. The legal basis is GDPR Article 6(1)(b), steps taken at your request before a possible contract, and Article 6(1)(f), our legitimate interest in replying to a business enquiry.
  • No consent is asked for, and none is required. There is no tick-box here because consent is not the basis we rely on, and consent demanded as the price of sending a message would not be freely given.
  • How long. 24 months from your last contact, then deleted. Where an engagement follows, accounting records are kept for the period the Finnish Accounting Act requires.
  • Where. Stored on our website server operated by Namecheap, Inc. in Los Angeles, California, United States — outside the EEA, under Standard Contractual Clauses.
  • Your rights. Access, rectification, erasure, restriction and portability, and you may object at any time to processing based on Article 6(1)(f). Write to info@countexoy.com. You may also complain to the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman (Tietosuojavaltuutetun toimisto).
  • Do not send confidential figures here. This form is for making contact. Ledgers, payroll data and tax documents are exchanged after an engagement letter, through a channel we agree with you.

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