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Finnish Tax Administration

revenue service of Finland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ18693786 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Finnish Tax Administration (Finnish: Verohallinto, Swedish: Skatteförvaltningen) is the revenue service of Finland. It is a government agency steered by the Ministry of Finance. The Finnish Tax Administration had 4,983 employees in 2016. It collects around two-thirds of the taxes in the country, with the rest being collected by the Finnish Customs and the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom. It collects around 55 billion euros and operates with a 408 million euro budget.

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The public source identifies “Finnish Tax Administration” as revenue service of Finland. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Finnish, Administration and revenue.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Finnish, Administration and revenue providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18693786. Authority coordinates are 60.181, 24.958. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Finnish Tax Administration” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.