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Pre-completed tax return

All the pre-completed tax returns are now in MyTax. They arrive by post by the end of April. 

  • If there is no need for corrections or additions in your return, you do not have to do anything.
  • If you want to make corrections, the deadline for them is 7 May, 14 May or 21 May 2024. You can check the deadline date on your tax return and in MyTax.

Go to MyTax

Instructions for filing

When you receive your tax return, this is what you should do:

1

Check the tax return

Always check all the pre-completed data on your tax return. 

2

If everything is correct, you do not need to do anything

If there is nothing to add or correct, you do not have to do anything. If you have not made any changes by the deadline date, we will consider that you have submitted your return with the contents that were pre-completed in it.

3

Correct missing or incorrect details

If there is something that you must add to or correct in your tax return, make the changes in MyTax or file them on paper forms.

See the instructions for filing

The corrections you have made to your tax return in MyTax or on paper forms must arrive at the Tax Administration by the due date stated in your return, at 23.59. You can see the due date on your return’s cover page and in MyTax.

See also instructions for those who submit paper-printed tax forms.

Extended time for filing

You may ask for an extension of time for filing the tax return if you have a valid reason for it. Complete an application form and submit it to the Tax Administration before the deadline date of the tax return. 

You can either

  • log in to MyTax to complete the extension form (Tax matters – Requests – Extended time for filing a tax return) or
  • print the form out on paper, fill it out, and send it to the Tax Administration.

Frequently asked questions

  1. First, log in to MyTax. Now you are on the tab called Your tax types. Go to the Individual income tax section, select Pre-completed tax return 2023 and click the Check your pre-completed tax return link.
  2. Click Make corrections to the pre-completed tax return. The different stages in MyTax contain spaces where you can fill in the correct amounts and information.
  3. Remember to send the tax return to the Tax Administration — go to the Preview and send stage: Click Submit.

If you have used the PDF format when you opened your pre-completed tax return, you cannot make changes.

You need to reverse, and then select a different way to proceed.

Close the PDF file. Alternatively, open another internet browser session where you use MyTax. When you click Make corrections to the pre-completed tax return, you can edit your pre-completed tax return, and add details, amounts, etc.
  1. First, log in to MyTax. Then, select the Communication tab.
  2. Select Filed returns and submitted requests and applications under Status of returns, requests and applications.
  3. Now, select Pre-completed tax return under Not submitted. You can continue working with the unfinished return.
  4. Remember to send the tax return to the Tax Administration — go to the Preview and send stage: Click Submit.

You may prefer to do this in the following alternative way:

  1. First, log in to MyTax. Now you are on the tab called Your tax types. Go to the Individual income tax section, select Pre-completed tax return 2023 and click the Check your pre-completed tax return link.
  2. Click Make corrections to the pre-completed tax return.
  3. The pre-completed tax return’s status is Not submitted. Now, select Edit the tax return to continue working with the unfinished return.
  4. Remember to send the tax return to the Tax Administration — go to the Preview and send stage: Click Submit.
  1. First, log in to MyTax. Then, select the Communication tab.
  2. Select Filed returns and submitted requests and applications under Status of returns, requests and applications.
  3. Now, select Pre-completed tax return under Submitted. You can still edit the return.
  4. Remember to send the tax return to the Tax Administration — go to the Preview and send stage: Click Submit.

If the pre-completed tax return’s status is Received:

  1. Go back to MyTax home page. Select the Your tax types tab.
  2. Go to the Individual income tax section, select Pre-completed tax return 2023 and click the Check your pre-completed tax return link.
  3. Click Edit the submitted tax return. The different stages in MyTax contain spaces where you can fill in the correct amounts and information.
  4. Remember to send the tax return to the Tax Administration — go to the Preview and send stage: Click Submit.

 

Are you looking for these?

You cannot add enclosures or free-text pages with additional taxpayer-provided information for the tax return, unless you are filling in one of the specific MyTax pages where this is provided for.

After you have logged in to MyTax to make corrections to your pre-completed tax return, you can see that the sections and pages of MyTax contain questions that you must answer. Your answers are the main method of giving the information that the Tax Administration needs. It is enough if you just fill in each space with the amounts, facts, and details as appropriate.

For example, to claim a tax-deductible expense, you simply fill in the amount and the information that MyTax has asked you to give. No enclosures, receipts or documentation are necessary. However, you should keep the receipts and documentation in a safe place for possible future use. In the same way, the MyTax view of your tax return contains no extra spaces for free-text additions. The Tax Administration will communicate with you if any information is needed that you have not already given.

Some of MyTax’ sections contain an “Upload an attachment file” feature – one of them is the section for sales of securities such as corporate stocks. In this case, the words Enclosures and Add a file appear.

Please note that the MyTax view does not contain numbered enclosure forms (such as Form 7H Rental income – Apartments in a housing company, or other numbered forms).

Instead of having to fill in many numbered forms for different kinds of income, you simply enter the amounts under the appropriate sections in MyTax. There are specific sections for different types of income. For example, rental income has a section of its own.

The Tax Administration can use automated decision-making in the context of resolving tax matters. This means that a decision concerning your tax matter may be based on partial or full use of an automated decision-making system. Read more about automated decision-making at the Tax Administration (only in Finnish).

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Page last updated 5/3/2024