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Specifications - Direct data transfers and other e-filings

 
Name Data format specifications / year (pdf) Form
/ instructions
Direct transfers of withholding data of Finnish resident recipients of pension benefits (VKESSELE) 2025

Instructions 2025
Instructions 2024

Direct transfers of withholding data of nonresident recipients of pension benefits (RVKSSELE) 2025

Instructions 2025
Instructions 2024

Direct transfer of withholding data for payments of wages (VKESSPAE)

2025
2024


Instructions 2025
Instructions 2024

Reporting employment income relating to YEL and MYEL for prepayment (VKTYOSVA)

2025

 
Requests for individual tax numbers (VERONUME) Effective from 29 Mar 2022
2012 ->
 
Checking the existence of an entry in the Public Register of Tax Numbers (VEROKYSE) Effective from 29 Mar 2022
2014 ->
 
Prepayment Register entry verification (VSENPERE) 2018 -> (7 October 2024)  
VAT chargeability verification (VSALVTAR) 2018 -> (31 January 2018)  
Reporting construction-sector details / Filer identification (VSRAKYHT)

2020 (26 November 2024)
2018

 
Reporting construction-sector details / Employees (VSTYONTE)

2020 (26 November 2024)
2018

 
Reporting construction-sector details / Contracts (VSURAKKA)

2020 (26 November 2024)
2018

 
Form for the details on a Reporting Entity (CbC and DAC4)

2025
2024
2023 (24 November 2023)

 

Country-by-Country Report
(CbC and DAC4)

Technical guidance v2.1 (XML schema 2.0, in use from 26 Jan 2021)

Example files (XML 2.0): 
CbC-Report_New_Schema-2.0
CbC-Report_Correction-OECD2_Schema-2.0
CbC-Report_Deletion-OECD3_Schema-2.0

Report on reportable arrangement (DAC6)

2018 -> (Reports can be submitted starting 1 June 2020)

 
Payment service provider's report on cross-border payments (CESOP report)

Technical instructions for application (22 October 2024)

commontypes (xsd)
isotypes (xsd)
PaymentData (xsd)

CESOP Example files (zip)
CESOP Validation Module (zip) (europa.eu)
Bank reference numbers for taxes (VSGVIITE) 2017 ->
(From 11 February 2021, the system additionally returns bank reference numbers for payments of car taxes)
 

Application for refund of tax withheld and application for tax-at-source cards

Name Instructions Example files and XML-schemas:

Application for refund of tax
withheld at source on
dividends, interest and
royalties

Technical guidance (pdf)
(1 February 2023)

Electronically supplied enclosures to tax-at-source refund applications (pdf) (24 November 2022)

WHT example OrganisationX2 and Individual.xml (24.1.2022)

isowhttypes_v1.0.1.xsd

whttypes_v1.2.xsd (13 January 2022)

whtXML_v1.1.xsd (13 January 2022)

Foreign corporation’s
tax-at-source card
application for dividend,
interest and royalty income

Technical guidance (pdf) 
(25 January 2022)

Applications for tax-at-source cards (pdf) (24 November 2022)

TAS example EU law and tax treaty applications.xml (24.1.2022)

isotastypes_v1.0.1.xsd

tastypes_v1.2.xsd (13 January 2022)

tasXML_v1.2.xsd (13 January 2022)

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