Government bills6
- HE 167/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming public finance management and oversight
Finland's public finance steering and oversight will be reformed to align with the European Union's new fiscal rules. Long-term ceiling targets will be set for public debt, and the Economic Policy Council will become an independent fiscal watchdog.
19 Dec 2025 · 2 votes170 jaa9 ei - HE 136/2025 vpPassed
Raising taxes on honorary titles
Taxes levied on honorary titles granted by the President of the Republic will be increased due to rising costs. At the same time, the list of public bodies eligible for the reduced tax rate will be updated to include wellbeing services counties, among others.
25 Nov 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 42/2024 vpPassed
Free civil service language examinations
The civil service language examination demonstrating excellent proficiency in Finnish or Swedish will become free of charge for upper secondary school graduates and higher education students. Candidates may register free of charge up to three times per examination component.
20 Jun 2024 · passed without a vote - HE 211/2021 vpPassed
Tightening interest deduction limitations
The ability of companies to deduct interest expenses in taxation using the balance sheet test will be tightened if the corporate group is financed by a significant owner. At the same time, infrastructure companies owned by public sector entities will be exempted from interest deduction limitations.
14 Dec 2021 · passed without a vote - HE 125/2021 vpPassed
Earlier wellbeing services counties' VAT refunds
Wellbeing services counties and comparable public entities will receive the right to value added tax (VAT) refunds already during their preparatory phase. This will make procurements equal in terms of taxation before the health and social services reform enters into force.
5 Oct 2021 · passed without a vote - HE 257/2018 vpPassed
Abolishing corporate income source division
In the income taxation of limited liability companies and other corporate entities, the separate income source for other activities will be abolished, and almost all income will be calculated as business income. This will allow losses incurred by different activities to be deducted from a company's other profits.
18 Feb 2019 · 2 votesClosest vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Pia Viitanen 2
91 jaa78 ei