Private individuals can authorise another person or company to report data

If they so desire, private individuals can authorise another person or company to act on their behalf in the Incomes Register.

If you have previously authorised somebody to act on your behalf in tax matters, for example, you must still separately authorise them for the Incomes Register. You can grant authorisation for acting in the Incomes Register in the Suomi.fi e-Authorisations service. The Incomes Register has its own authorisation codes, Reporting earnings payment data and Browsing earnings payment data. Read more about authorisations. Persons under 18 years of age may not authorise others to act on their behalf.

You can also ask for an authorisation

Persons or companies may also ask another person for authorisation to act on their behalf in the Incomes Register. The authorisation request is made in the Suomi.fi e-Authorisations service. You can act on the other person's behalf after the person who received the authorisation request has approved it within the Suomi.fi e-Authorisations service.

Acting on behalf of a minor

Guardians may act in the Incomes Register's e-service on behalf of their children under 15 years of age without a separate authorisation. The guardian may log in to the Incomes Register's e-service using their own online banking codes, a mobile certificate, or a certificate card, and select the Act on behalf of another individual function

Persons over 15 years of age are personally obligated to report any wages and other earned income they have paid to the Incomes Register. If the wage payer is 15 to 18 years of age and cannot use the Incomes Register's e-service themselves, they must report any wages they pay on a paper form. A person over 18 years of age can grant an authorisation in the Suomi.fi e-Authorisation service.

Using the Incomes Register's e-service

Once your authorisations are in order, you can act on behalf of another private individual in the Incomes Register's e-service by first logging in to the service at incomesregister.fi. Next, click Act on behalf of another individual in the left-hand menu. Select the person on whose behalf you want to use the e-service. Next, select Confirm and continue to the service. You will then be moved back to the Incomes Register's e-service, and you may begin acting on behalf of the other private individual. You can stop acting on behalf of the other private individual by selecting End session Act on behalf of another on the left-hand side of the page.

Foreign private individuals cannot take care of their own Incomes Register matters in the e-service

At present, foreign private individuals cannot act in the Incomes Register's e-service or authorise another person or a company to act on their behalf in the e-service. An individual must have a Finnish personal identity code and an electronic means of identification to be able to use the Incomes Register's e-service.