Go paperless and get tax mail only in MyTax

The legal act on the priority of digital communications and e-correspondence will go into effect later in 2026.  However, the Tax Administration is prepared to let you choose electronic tax mail already now, so that you can receive all tax-related letters, documents, decisions only in MyTax, not on paper.

At present, as an individual taxpayer, all your letters, documents, etc. are available for you in electronic format in MyTax. If you are not a user of Suomi.fi Messages, you also receive your tax mail on paper. 

Individual taxpayers can opt for “no paper mail”. This means that no letters, decisions, etc. will arrive to you from the Tax Administration by post because all the tax mail will become electronic.  
“The Tax Administration offers you the option to take tax mail into MyTax even before the forthcoming legal act is adopted in Finland. When you have changed your settings to receiving electronic tax mail already now – on a voluntary basis – the future impact will not be as dramatic for you later, when new laws on digital priority will also require other public authorities to start sending you their official correspondence electronically”, says Joonas Jarva, the Product Owner of MyTax at the Tax Administration.

If you already have Suomi.fi Messages enabled, you will continue to be notified every time you have new tax mail in MyTax. You also have the option to have MyTax save your personal contact information. After that, you will get the notifications through not only MyTax but also Suomi.fi.

As for business taxpayers, they have been able to select electronic tax mail for some time now.

Save your contact information in MyTax and you will receive notifications concerning new tax mail

To give up receiving paper tax mail, you are required to either enter an e-mail address or a phone number into MyTax. After that, whenever the Tax Administration sends you tax-related mail, you will get a notification by e-mail or phone.
“In other words, there is no need for the taxpayers to keep checking their MyTax”, says Joonas Jarva.

There are many advantages to electronic correspondence with public authorities. To open and read a letter from the authorities requires strong authentication and secure login. To have one’s important documents stored in one place is an advantage, too. The notifications on new mail arrive rapidly, and you can read them anywhere, anytime. 
“Electronic delivery is environmentally more friendly and it will bring about considerable savings to the public economy”, Joonas Jarva says.

How to stop paper tax mail:

1. Log in to MyTax — select your personal tax matters. A message will appear: Do you want to receive your tax mail only electronically in MyTax?
2. Select Submit contact information for tax mail. You can type in your email or phone on the Taxpayer details tab.
3. Type either your e-mail or phone number — or both. If you type both, you will be notified of new tax mail in both ways. 

More instructions: Suomi.fi messages and electronically provided tax mail — individual taxpayers

The Finnish legal act governing the priority of digital communications will go into effect later in 2026. Exact dates will be confirmed when parliamentary proceedings move forward.