Terms of Service

1. Who provides this website

countexoy.com is operated by Countex Oy, Osakeyhtio (limited liability company), Business ID 0149516-4, EU VAT FI01495164, registered office c/o Miettinen, Pohjoisranta 2 E 13, 00170 Helsinki, Finland. Contact: info@countexoy.com. The register record can be checked at the Finnish Business Information System.

2. What this website is

It describes services Countex Oy offers and publishes general information about Finnish accounting and tax obligations. It is a description of services, not an offer capable of acceptance, and using it creates no client relationship.

Nothing on this website is advice on your company. Advice requires your facts and a written engagement. General statements of law here are correct to the best of our knowledge on the date shown, for the common case described, and legislation and Tax Administration guidance change.

3. The scope estimator

The estimator at /tax-calculator applies published statutory thresholds to figures you type. Its output is an indication, and specifically:

• it does not calculate any amount of tax;
• it does not estimate or promise any saving;
• it does not quote a fee, and it is not an offer of a price;
• it applies the general case only — extensions, group structures, a non-standard financial year or an election you have made will change the result;
• the statutory audit test looks at two consecutive financial years, and the estimator can only see the one you typed.

Do not rely on it for a filing decision. Ask us, or ask your auditor.

4. No guarantee of outcome

Countex Oy does not guarantee any tax outcome, refund, assessment or saving, and nothing on this site should be read as such a guarantee. Tax follows from the facts of a transaction and from the law that applies to it. What we commit to is that the work will be done competently, that returns will be filed on the statutory dates, and that where we give an opinion we will name the provision it rests on.

5. Work Countex Oy does not accept

Naming the boundary is part of the advice. Countex Oy does not take on the following, and will say so at the first call rather than after an engagement letter.

• Statutory audit engagements and any work requiring an HT, KHT or JHT approval.
• Investment, securities, insurance or credit advice of any kind. We are not authorised by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority.
• Arrangements whose purpose is to conceal income, assets or beneficial ownership from an authority.
• Clients or transactions we cannot identify to the standard the Finnish Anti-Money Laundering Act (444/2017) requires of an accounting firm.
• Consumer tax returns as a standalone product. Countex Oy works with companies and their owners.

In particular: Countex Oy is not an audit firm approved by the Finnish Patent and Registration Office. Under the Finnish Auditing Act (Tilintarkastuslaki 1141/2015) a statutory audit may only be performed by an approved auditor or audit firm (HT, KHT or JHT). Countex Oy does not perform statutory audits, does not issue audit reports, and does not describe itself as an auditor. Where a client is audited, the auditor is appointed by that client's shareholders and is independent of Countex Oy.

Countex Oy is not authorised by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority and gives no investment, securities, credit or insurance advice.

6. Engagements

Work begins only under a written engagement letter that sets out the scope, the responsibilities of each side, the deadlines and the fee. Before it starts, the Anti-Money Laundering Act (444/2017) requires us to identify the client and its beneficial owners; we cannot waive that.

The client remains responsible for the completeness and accuracy of the material it gives us, and for approving returns before they are filed. We are responsible for the professional quality of the work we do on that material.

7. Availability and links

We aim to keep the site available but do not promise uninterrupted access, and we may change or withdraw content at any time. Links to public registers and authorities are provided because you should be able to check us; we are not responsible for the content of any external site.

8. Intellectual property

The text, layout, code and graphics of this site belong to Countex Oy. You may read, print and quote from it with attribution. You may not republish it as your own or use it to train a service that reproduces it.

9. Liability

To the extent Finnish law allows, Countex Oy is not liable for loss arising from reliance on the general information on this website in the absence of an engagement. Liability for work performed under an engagement is governed by that engagement letter. Nothing here limits liability for intent, gross negligence, or anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

10. Complaints

Write to info@countexoy.com and set out what went wrong. We answer in writing. This is a business-to-business practice and does not sell to consumers; if a dispute cannot be settled between us, it goes to the court named below.

11. Governing law and venue

Finnish law governs this website and any engagement, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes are heard by the Helsinki District Court (Helsingin karajaoikeus), unless mandatory law requires another venue.

12. Changes to these terms

The date at the top of this page is the version in force. A changed version applies from the date it is published; it does not alter an engagement letter already signed.