Invoicing

If a customer does not pay for the periodic filing within the given time period, this will result in the levying of additional tax and late payment interest for each decision on customs clearance and taxation in the periodic filing, in a minimum amount of three euros per decision.

Late payment interest is levied on customs duties. The rate of interest on arrears shall be equal to the interest rate as published in the Official Journal of the European Union, C series, which the European Central Bank applied to its main refinancing operations, on the first day of the month in which the due date fell, increased by two percentage points.

Interest on arrears is not collected on customs duties if the amount of interest on arrears is under ten euros per debt collection assignment.

Costs due to late payments are listed on a request for payment to be sent to the customer.

If a customer pays the requested delayed payment in its entirety no later than on the due date, the entire debt will be paid at once along with the late payment charge.

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You can also receive periodic filings as e-invoices after you notify the Customs Authorisation Centre of the change. It is not possible to receive invoices for periodic filings simultaneously as online invoices and by mail. It is also not possible to send an e-invoice to an e-mail address. Instead, Customs sends the e-invoice to the address of the e-invoice operator.

Electronic periodic filing is transmitted in the same way as filings in paper format, except when a bank is the e-invoice operator of the recipient. However, there are certain shortcomings in electronic periodic filings, for example as concerns data contents and payment-related terminology. For example, periodic filings are referred to as “invoices”. Also, the specification section contains only a list of the numbers of the taxation decisions under the periodic filing, and of the unpaid amounts relating to the decisions.

Please note that, for now, periodic filings can only be submitted as e-invoices to only one e-invoicing address per business ID. A separate declaration must be lodged for each individual business ID. It is not necessary to separately declare the online invoicing operator.

• Appearance of a periodic filing transmitted by means other through than a bank operator (in Finnish)
• Appearance of a periodic filing transmitted through a bank operator (in Finnish)
• E-invoice notification form (in Finnish)
• TIEKE (Finnish Information Society Development Centre): E-invoice operators (in Finnish)

 

 

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