From 14 April on, when you log in to MyTax you will activate Suomi.fi Messages. Tax correspondence will be delivered electronically only, in MyTax. Read more about the changes.
Tax management of estates of deceased persons to be included in MyTax in 2027
Starting in 2027, to deal with the affairs of an estate of a decedent will be less burdensome than at present. When the planned improvements are in place, those who are shareholders or authorised agents of an estate will be able to manage information online, in MyTax, not only taxes but also the official data records on the heirs, inheritors, shareholders of the estate.
MyTax will have a ready-to-use set of data concerning both the shareholders and the property and assets left behind. These changes will only apply to new estates, those that will be formed when the electronically provided services are implemented.
The MyTax features to be introduced will include viewing of the data records in the official register of shareholders, requesting a copy of the records, completing any information that is missing from the estate inventory or from the inheritance tax return. These functionalities will be available to shareholders who log in to MyTax for dealing with the affairs of the estate. It will be possible to submit the tax return and the deed of inventory in MyTax.
Estate shareholders and authorised service providers will use MyTax
The Tax Administration is developing new functionalities for MyTax for easier tax management for death estates.
The planned MyTax capabilities will allow users to
- Verify the contents of a new official register listing all the shareholders of the estate
- Notify the Tax Administration of the contact person appointed for the estate
- Notify the Tax Administration of a bank account number for the estate
- Complete and send the inheritance tax return and deed of estate inventory
- Request extensions of time for the inventory and for sending the tax return
- Send the deeds of partition and distribution
- Watch a tracking view of the tax-assessment process
- Save important documents in electronic format in MyTax
Currently, some of the information relating to inheritance taxation can be submitted through MyTax on the pages designed for individual taxpayers’ taxes or on the pages for organisations, which involve data submitted in a restricted scope. In the future, when the improvements are ready, MyTax will provide electronic viewing of a wide range of documentation that concern the estate’s shareholders and professional service providers. Viewing will extend to application forms, pending matters, tracking and follow-up, etc.
What is new for the shareholders of an estate?
What is new for professionals who manage death estates?
The official register of estate shareholders will be a new national register
The Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV) will create a new register for data records on all estate shareholders. The future register will be among Finland’s statutory data registers, deriving its input from the population register and supplemented with data from other sources, such as the records of church parishes. The register will replace today’s reports of family relations issued by the DVV’s population register.
Data records will be created in an automatic process from other databases’ entries concerning deaths and newly formed estates.
Shareholders of the estates will obtain access to the register in MyTax. A MyTax functionality for updating the information will be also available. Users of the information stored in the future register will need to pay a service charge comparable with the charges collected today for offical issuance of extracts from the population register.
The professional service providers and legal services companies, etc. can use the register’s data records. This will contribute to more trouble-free use of e-services. Those who manage an estate’s affairs will no longer need to send similar sets of information to multiple government agencies and authorities.
Organisations offering e-services for citizens will be able to use Suomi.fi Authorizations to ensure a secure login by an agent or representative of an estate. Suomi.fi will perform a cross-check within the future shareholder register to establish whether a person logging in is authorised to do so. Another functionality will be introduced allowing an estate to issue a Suomi.fi authorisation to a professional service provider.
Inheritance tax returns and deeds of inventory to be pre-filled in MyTax
MyTax will have new features for pre-completing, checking and subsequent editing of the inheritance tax return and the deed of inventory. These documents can be sent to the Tax Administration electronically. Logged-in users of MyTax can view information on the deceased person's assets and property, such as houses, apartments, etc. The estate shareholder who has logged in will have to check the information and if necessary, make various additions. In addition, the shareholders should determine the value of the estate property that the decedent had left behind.
There will also be an introduction of a new tax return for inheritance purposes. After the changes are implemented, the Tax Administration will no longer issue inheritance tax decisions based on the deed of estate inventory. Instead, the assessment process will be based on the new inheritance tax return.
However, those who manage the taxes will still be able to choose between the submittal of the inheritance tax return in MyTax and its submittal on a paper form.
Promoting digital service centred on life events
The planned improvements are part of the Ministry of Finance’s program (abbreviated as EOAVH) for the introduction of up-to-date services for easier management of the affairs of an estate of a deceased person.
Aims of the Ministry of Finance’s program include
- to make the management of the affairs of a deceased relative easier,
- to provide a full e-service that the persons in charge of an estate can rely on, regardless of their physical location and at any time,
- to introduce a database of up-to-date contact information for estates, and
- to reach a higher level of automation in inheritance taxation.
The Tax Administration and the DVV co-operate in designing the services. Further co-operation in matters related to legal norms is ongoing with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Justice.
Technical development of the new services and the entry into force of the necessary legislation will take place in 2025 and 2026. The new services will be ready for use in 2027.
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