1.
Tax Card Online

2. Tax card
Every January, the Tax Administration sends all taxpayers their tax cards for the new year.
It is a withholding allowance certificate, based on estimates of annual income and expenses. The withholding rate printed on it is tailored for each individual.
Your personal rate is the result of calculations based on database data; however, although we use the latest information on record, some of it may be 2 years old.
From time to time, you may need to have your withholding rate revised because your income and tax-deductible expenses change.

3. Asking for a revised withholding rate
Some 1.8 million requests for revised with-holding rates are processed every year.
Send the request via these channels:
over the Web with Tax Card Online
by phone
at the tax office
complete an application form and send it by post
At present, more than half of the requests arrive through Tax Card Online.

4. Tax Card Online Visit Tax.fi/taxcard at your convenience (24/7).
Have your e-banking security codes ready (alter-natively, a microchip ID card with a reader device).
To learn more about Tax Card Online, visit the Demo version.
You'll see your new, revised withholding rate during the session. Select whether you want to print out your new card on paper yourself, have it sent to your home address, or have it sent to your employer's address by post.

5. For an online request, have this ready:
You must have the same details ready regardless of what channel you use
Full estimate of income & deductions / year.
Amounts you've been paid so far, what has been withheld, what expenses are included since January 1st.
Look up the amounts on your latest pay slip.

6. System requirements
We recommend running Tax Card Online on a laptop or desktop.
An Internet hookup and browser are necessary.
The settings should enable both cookies and JavaScript.
We recommend the newest versions of the following browsers:
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Apple Safari
Read more: Technical requirements for use of e-Services

7. Welcome to sign in! Click this first
Prepare for your session: have the facts ready
Run the Demo
to learn more

8. Enter your… bank security codes or microchip identity card.
Tax Card Online only shows your personal tax details This means you cannot see the records on your children or spouse.

9. Advancing stage by stage
Taxpayer information and tax cards
Personal data and the latest recorded withholding information appear.
Reporting your income and deductions
This stage is for entering new income and expenses, and for making corrections to existing records.
Result of the calculation
Your new, revised withholding rate appears. You also see the details of the calculation.
Final stage: Delivery mode and Submit
Select whether you want to use self-printing, or do you want the tax office to send the card to you / to your employer.

10. (1) Taxpayer information and tax cards
Verify your personal data to make sure there are no mistakes.
Click here to get a card for a 2nd job.

11. (2) Reporting your income and deductions
Check the contents of the Information on record column carefully.
Click Edit to make corrections.

12. Pay and fringe benefits from main occupation
Enter your income for the entire year, enter how much you've been paid so far (since Jan 1), and enter the amount withheld.
Select one or the other.

13. Which income ceiling is better?
Select the specific ceiling for each pay period if
your pay does not change during the year.
This card has several period lengths printed on it: income ceiling per day, per week, per 2 weeks, per month.
Select the general ceiling for the rest of the year if
your earnings are different month-by-month, or they flow in periodically during the year.

14. (2) Reporting your income and deductions
Your input is display-ed in ”Taxpayer's declaration” column.
If you are a recipient of social welfare allow-ances, enter them as ”Social benefits”.
Click Edit to enter deductible expenses such as travel or commuting.

15. Commuting – trips between home and work
Click here to report your deductible expenses for commuting.
This section is for less common pur-poses, e.g. con-struction workers and others who commute between two jobs that are located far away from one another.

16. Commuting Enter the total expense.
Do not subtract the own liability threshold.
If you drive to work, you must enter the kilometres per year.
Tax Card Online runs a calculation based on the kilometre count.

17. Commuting
Expenses are transferred to your withholding rate, making it lower.
If your commuting consists of many kinds of journeys between home and work, click "A - New commuting cost" to start entering the facts.

18. (2) Reporting your income and deductions
These lines are for enter-ing the interest payments for a new loan or for making cor-rections to the information on record.

19. Interest paid
If you have borrowed money, click "New loan" to enter the interest payments. Click Edit to make corrections as necessary.

20. Interest paid Enter an estimate.
Only enter the part of the paid interest that you paid if you share the loan with someone else.

21. Credit for domestic expenses
Click here to add a new expense.

22. Credit for domestic expenses
Fill in the electronic form separately for each job.
Fill in a new page for each company that you've paid money to.

23. Credit for domestic expenses
Click here to add any new details or amounts, e.g. you hire more people or you pay invoices to several businesses.

24. (3) Result of the calculation
You see your individual with-holding rates here.
Click Continue to move on. You see your individual Tax Number at the foot of the display.

25. (4) Delivery mode and Submit
Select the method of delivery.
We can send the card to your employer.
Click Send the data Your card is either sent off by post or made ready for self-printing.

26. (5) Using your own printer
Click here.
Another option: save the file.
Remember to Sign Out when you are done.

27. Self-printing not available
You cannot always use the self-printing option. Some cards require intervention by an employee of the tax office. Self-printing is not available. A message appears at the Result stage.

28. Proceed as follows
If your card has to be checked by an employee, remember to enter your phone number because they may want to contact you. If necessary, enter additional information.

29. Do you earn money from a second job?
Enter your input
on your main job under ”Pay and benefits, principal employment”
on other job/jobs under ”Pay and benefits, secondary employment”.
You are given two cards, both have your basic withholding rate up to an income ceiling, calculations based on your input, and an additional withholding rate that applies to any earnings in excess of the ceilings.
Cards for second jobs may be copied freely
Make sure the real earnings are not higher than the income ceiling.

30. Important points
In January, previous calendar year's withholding rates continue to be in force.
However, the income ceiling is re-set to zero.
If you request a new card at the end of December or beginning of January, it automatically replaces the card you receive in the mass mailing.
There's no way to get a copy of a recent card.
Enter all your amounts again to get a new card.
Cards may be saved as pdf files if necessary.

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