Finland VAT registration threshold

What this value means

PERIOD BASIS: Two-limb calendar-year test since 1 January 2025: the seller is not taxable if turnover in BOTH the current calendar year AND the preceding calendar year is at most EUR 20,000 (AVL 3 §). If the limit is exceeded during a calendar year, liability (and registration) starts from the date of exceeding — prospectively, and the sale that crosses the line is taxable in full. This replaced the pre-2025 accounting-period (tilikausi) basis with retroactive registration to the start of the period. SECOND LIMB: Preceding calendar year ≤ EUR 20,000 (same figure, conjunctive: 'kuluvan kalenterivuoden ja sitä edeltäneen kalenterivuoden liikevaihto'). NON-ESTABLISHED SUPPLIERS: AVL 3 a § (also 448/2024): the § 3 exemption applies to a foreigner whose business domicile is in another EU Member State ONLY if its union turnover in the current and preceding calendar year is at most EUR 100,000 — i.e. the Directive (EU) 2020/285 cross-border SME scheme, which since 1 January 2025 lets EU-established businesses use the Finnish EUR 20,000 exemption. Foreigners established outside the EU (no Finnish fixed establishment) get no threshold: obligations from the first Finnish sale for which they are liable, subject to the reverse charge (AVL 9 §). IMPORTED DIGITAL SERVICES: No separate domestic threshold: non-EU B2C suppliers of digital/electronic services owe Finnish VAT from the first consumer sale (nil threshold; AVL 3 § does not extend to them) with OSS non-Union scheme as the simplified route; EU-established suppliers can shelter under the Finnish 20,000 exemption only via the SME scheme (3 a §, union turnover ≤ EUR 100,000) or under the EUR 10,000 union TBE/distance-sales micro-threshold. Traps: (1) The 2025 switch from tilikausi to calendar year AND from retroactive to prospective registration — pre-2025 logic (register back to the start of the accounting period) is now wrong; VAT applies from the exceeding sale onward, that sale included, with no back-tax to 1 January. (2) The turnover counter (3 § 2 mom.) includes certain zero-rated sales (e.g. 56, 58, 70–72 e § exports/intra-EU), real-estate disposals and financial/insurance services unless ancillary; fixed-asset sales excluded. (3) The lower-limit relief (alarajahuojennus, formerly for turnover under EUR 30,000) was ABOLISHED from 1 January 2025 — engines still granting it are wrong. (4) Voluntary registration remains available ('ellei häntä ole oman ilmoituksensa perusteella merkitty'). (5) The figure was 15,000 in 2021-2024 and 10,000 before 2021. Researched against the primary instrument and then attacked by an independent adversarial verification pass before being served (2026-08-08). Where that pass refuted a citation, the correction it proved has been applied; no headline threshold was refuted.

Get it programmatically

curl https://euroref.dev/v1/fi/vat-registration-threshold
# $0.005 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History:    curl https://euroref.dev/v1/fi/vat-registration-threshold/history?from=2020-01-01
# Provenance: curl https://euroref.dev/provenance/fi/vat-registration-threshold

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