Adjusting municipal central government transfers for 2023
Act amending sections 21 and 32 of the Act on Central Government Transfers to Local Government for Basic Public Services
The central government transfer percentage for municipal basic public services will decrease to 22.09 per cent at the beginning of 2023. At the same time, temporary deductions to central government transfers and funding for new statutory duties will be defined.
- Status
- Passed with amendments
- Submitted
- 19 Sep 2022
- Latest event
- 9 Dec 2022
- Votes
- 0
- Confirmed
- 20 Dec 2022
- Statute
- 1183/2022
- Source
- eduskunta.fi ↗
What is proposed
The central government transfer percentage for municipal basic public services will be lowered by 1.50 percentage points to 22.09 per cent, leaving municipalities with a self-financing share of 77.91 per cent. The percentage change takes into account, among other things, supplementary increments within the central government transfer system, full funding for new and expanding municipal duties (approximately 15 million euros), a permanent cut of 33 million euros to the level of central government transfers, and temporary deductions for 2023.
What it means
The change directly affects the finances and central government transfer funding of all municipalities in mainland Finland from 1 January 2023. Central government transfers for municipal basic public services will total approximately 2.7 billion euros in 2023, which is about 5.2 billion euros less than the previous year as health and social services duties and funding are transferred to wellbeing services counties. Due to the equalisation mechanisms related to the health and social services reform, the central government transfer or its disbursement will temporarily become negative in several municipalities.
How Parliament voted
The bill passed without a vote – no MP proposed rejecting or amending it in plenary.
Stages of consideration
The bill's path from the preliminary debate to the decision, as recorded by Parliament.
- 19 Sep 2022Eduskuntakäsittelyn vireilletulo · Valtiovarainministeriö
- 20 Sep 2022Lähetekeskustelu · Täysistunto
- 29 Nov 2022Valiokunnan mietintö tai lausunto · hallintovaliokunta
- 1 Dec 2022Ensimmäinen käsittely · Täysistunto
- 7 Dec 2022Toinen käsittely · Täysistunto
- 8 Dec 2022Eduskunnan vastaus ja kirjelmä
Decisions by law proposal1
- 1Laki kunnan peruspalvelujen valtionosuudesta annetun lain muuttamisestaHyväksytty muutettuna · 1183/2022 · 20 Dec 2022
Proposed law text
The law proposals in the bill as the Government presented them. The final act may differ after committee consideration.
The law text is shown in Finnish or Swedish from Parliament's official documents; it is not translated into English.
Laki kunnan peruspalvelujen valtionosuudesta annetun lain 21 ja 32 §:n muuttamisesta
Eduskunnan päätöksen mukaisesti muutetaan kunnan peruspalvelujen valtionosuudesta annetun lain (618/2021) 21 §:n 1 momentti ja 32 § seuraavasti:
21 §Valtionosuusprosentti ja kunnan omarahoitusosuus
Kunnan 6—12 §:ssä tarkoitetut laskennalliset kustannukset jakautuvat siten, että kuntien valtionosuus on 22,09 prosenttia (valtionosuusprosentti ) ja kuntien omarahoitusosuus on 77,91 prosenttia.
32 §Määräaikaiset kuntien valtionosuuteen kohdistuvat vähennykset ja lisäykset
Vuonna 2023 kunnan peruspalvelujen valtionosuudesta vähennetään 0,18 euroa asukasta kohden pitkäaikaistyöttömien eläketuen menojen vähennyksestä johtuen.
Vuonna 2023 kunnan peruspalvelujen valtionosuudesta vähennetään 1,81 euroa asukasta kohden liittyen kuntien digitalisaation kannustinjärjestelmän päättymiseen.
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Tämä laki tulee voimaan päivänä kuuta 20 .
Main content of the bill (official)
The summary and title were produced with AI on 13 Sep 2026. They are not official documents – check the details in the original bill. The title and summaries are machine translations of the Finnish AI summaries. Speeches and quotations are always shown in their original language.