Starting up business?
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Before starting up
Plan your business start-up carefully. Choose which legal form best fits the needs of your new company. Remember to take out pension insurance to ensure that you will receive pension after retirement.
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Starting up
Submit a start-up notification to enter your company in the Tax Administration’s registers. You will receive a Business ID immediately if you submit your start-up notification electronically.
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Starting business activities
While you wait for registration decisions, open a bank account for your company. We also recommend that you hire an accountant. Decisions will usually be issued in 3–4 weeks after you submit the start-up notification. You can start invoicing as soon as you have received the registration decisions.
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Business routines
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Filing and paying employer’s contributions
Report employer's contributions to the Incomes Register and pay them in MyTax. If you are a regular employer, you must file the report even if you have not paid wages.
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Filing and paying VAT
File and pay VAT if you are liable to pay VAT. VAT returns must be filed for each tax period even if the company has not had VAT-liable activities.
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Paying taxes
Make sure that your company’s prepayments are in order or, if you are a self-employed individual, your tax card is up to date. Remember to make your prepayments on time.
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Tax returns
File your tax return on time.
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Videos
See also the instruction videos for new entrepreneurs. Subtitles are available in English.
Instruction videos for new entrepreneurs (YouTube) (subtitles in English)