PERMITS AND NOTIFICATIONS
1. Permits and Notifications
Business, trade or professional activities may be carried out in Finland by individual entrepreneurs as well as by corporate entities. In principle freedom of occupation prevails, which means that no special permits need to be obtained for establishing a business in Finland.
However, before starting business activities regardless of the legal entity of the enterprise, a notification has to be filed with the Trade Register and the County Tax Government. The latter includes a registration for tax, VAT and employer purposes, whereby the enterprise receives a certain tax registration number.
There are a number of specific business activities which are licensed or otherwise restricted. To a certain extent the rules concerning foreigners are different compared to those concerning Finnish citizens.
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