Use our services electronically
You can report data in the Incomes Register’s e-service or transfer reports directly from your payment system via an API.
Submitting reports in e-service
In the Incomes Register’s e-service, you can complete one report at a time or send the data as an XML file via the upload service. You can also browse and correct submitted reports and request transcripts.
Log in to the service and read the instructions
Identify yourself in the service using your online banking codes, a mobile certificate or a certificate card.
You can act on behalf of a company or organisation if you hold the required official role. If you act in any other role, you will need a Suomi.fi authorisation.
Use technical interface to automate reporting
Many payroll and benefit software products are able to use the Incomes Register interface (API). If you make payments frequently or to a large number of income earners, using such software will make your job easier.
In addition to reporting, many software products allow you to correct data directly from the payment system to the Incomes Register. You can also request records or transcripts through the API. Ask your software supplier for more information.
The use of interfaces and certificates requires technical skills. Agree upon tasks and procedures with your software supplier.
For example, Palkka.fi service (available in Finnish and Swedish, link to Finnish), a free payroll service, also uses the API solution and automatically sends the necessary reports to the Incomes Register.
Read more about interfaces on the website of the software developers
If you cannot use the e-service, submit data with paper form
Paper forms can be used to report earnings payment data only under special circumstances. It is not possible to report any pension or benefit data using a paper form.
In the Incomes Register, data users are the organisations and authorities to which the act on the Incomes Register (Laki tulotietojärjestelmästä 53/2018) grants the right to search for och view data reported to the Incomes Register. These parties may only use the data in the extent and for the purposes laid down in the act.
Data users retrieve data from the Incomes Register to their software via an API. Some organisations also use the Incomes Register’s e-service.
The data is used for decision-making and in other statutory duties.
A separate data permission decision is made for each organisation entitled to data permission. It defines what information the representatives of the organisation may retrieve and view, and to what extent.
Only an organisation or public authority that has the right to receive data from the Incomes Register under the Incomes Register Act may receive data permission.