Notification on amendments or termination of business: private traders, self-employed and agricultural or forestry operators (Y6)

Use the Y forms if you cannot file your notification online at ytj.fi in Finnish or Swedish.

See the company types that can use online filing at ytj.fi.

The details you enter on the form will be publicly available to everyone.

Do not enter personal identity codes or the contact person’s contact details on the form. You can enter this information on a separate personal data form and enclose it with your notification.

Detailed guidance:

When do I need to fill in a notification form on amendments or termination Y6?

Use form Y6 to tell the Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) and the Finnish Tax Administration about changes to your company or about closing your company.

Use the form Y6 to file a notification on amendments or termination of business for

private traders
self-employed
agricultural operators
forest owners or
estates of a deceased person.

If you have a Finnish Business ID, use this form to file changes or to notify of termination or closing.

With a few exceptions, all the notifications to the Finnish Trade Register are subject to a fee. Go to the price list and payment instructions on the PRH website.Open link in a new tab

Notifications to the Finnish Tax Administration are always free of charge.

How do I fill in the form?

Save the form to your computer and fill it in. Fill in the form before printing it.

Do not enter personal identity codes or the contact person’s contact details on the form. You can enter this information on a separate personal data form and enclose it with your notification.

Basic information

Always fill in the basic information.

Enter the Finnish Business ID. There is a field for each digit on the form. The Business ID consists of seven digits and a control mark. If the Business ID starts with 0 (zero), enter it as well.

Enter the registered name of your company under “Company name”.

Enter your full name and date of birth.

The company registers or files changes with the PRH

Tick the box if you register your business or file changes with the Finnish Trade Register.

The company must register with the Finnish Trade Register if any of the following conditions are met:

The company has a permanent place of business, such as business premises or an office.
The self-employed employs people other than their spouse, or child or grandchild who is a minor.
The company operates in a licensed trade.

Enclose a receipt of payment of the Trade Register handling fee.

Go to the PRH website to see the Finnish Trade Register’s handling fees and payment instructions.

Complete pages 3–4 to give details of the changes and the termination of business to the registers of the Finnish Tax Administration.

Informing the PRH of business termination

Tick the box if the business is deregistered from the Finnish Trade Register. The termination or closing of business is only entered in the Finnish Trade Register, and the company is deregistered from the Finnish Trade Register. Notifications of termination are free of charge.

Termination or closing cannot be registered with the Finnish Trade Register if an enterprise mortgage has been registered on the business operator’s assets. Termination or closing cannot be registered until the enterprise mortgage is redeemed or the transferee of the company has assumed responsibility for the mortgage.

Complete pages 3–4 to give details of interruption, changes or termination of business to the Finnish Tax Administration.

Request for registration on a certain date / accelerated processing request

Tick the box if you are requesting registration on a certain date (for example, an accelerated processing request).

Please enclose a separate letter explaining your reasons for the request.

New company name

Enter the new company name.

Go to the PRH website for further instructions about company names, parallel company names and auxiliary company names.

New domicile (registered office; municipality where the company is managed)

Enter the new place of registered office of the company. It must be a municipality in Finland.

For companies outside Finland, enter the new country of tax residence.

Other company names, if any

You can also register parallel company names or auxiliary company names with the Finnish Trade Register.

A parallel company name is a translation of the Finnish or Swedish company name. Enter the parallel company name(s) of your company. Add the language in brackets.

You can enter one or more auxiliary company names on the form. Describe which of the company’s activities are conducted under each auxiliary company name. Please note that the business you are planning to run under the auxiliary company name may only cover a part of your company’s business. Pay a handling fee for each auxiliary company name.

Go to the PRH website for further instructions about parallel company names and auxiliary company names.

Contact details of the company for public use

Enter the new contact details of your company. A company registered at the Finnish Trade Register must have a street address or a postal address. You can also enter other contact details for your company, such as an email address and telephone number.

New postal address

Enter the new postal address of your company. Enter the address details as follows:

Postal address: name of the street or road
Building no: an address number of a house can also include a letter, hyphen or slash.
Entrance no: staircase letter, if any, or the abbreviation Apt.
Apartment no: the apartment number, and a divider, if any
PO Box no: the PO Box number
Postal code
Town or city

The postal address will be transmitted to the Finnish Tax Administration. If you want to register a different postal address with the Finnish Tax Administration, enter the address on page 3 under “Postal address to be given to the Tax Administration use only”.

New street address

Enter the new street address of your company. The street address is the address where the business or the permanent place of business is located. Enter the address details as follows:

Postal address: name of the street or road
Building no: an address number of a house can also include a letter, hyphen or slash.
Entrance no: staircase letter, if any, or the abbreviation Apt.
Apartment no: the apartment number, and a divider, if any
Postal code
Town or city

Contact details to be removed

Enter the contact details that should be removed. Please note that all address details cannot be removed, as the company must have a postal address or a street address.

Financial period (accounting period)

Enter the change to the financial period as follows:

Enter under “Current, exceptional accounting period” when the current financial period starts and ends in the format dd.mm.yyyy–dd.mm.yyyy.
Enter the new, normal financial period without the year in the format dd.mm.‒dd.mm.

The normal financial period is always 12 months.

The exceptional financial period may be shorter or longer than 12 months. It cannot be longer than 18 months. The current, exceptional financial period and the new, normal financial period must end on the same day.

Changes to the financial period must be filed two months before the date when the new financial period must be registered at the latest (Decision of the Finnish National Board of Taxes on filing obligation and record keeping, 1379/2006, section 35).

Changes to the financial period are not entered in the Finnish Trade Register.

Change of legal entity form

If the company’s form of business changes, enter the current and new business form.

If you make changes to the legal entity form, the Finnish Business ID of the natural person or the estate of a deceased person will not be transferred to the company continuing the business. For instance, if the legal entity form of a private trader, self-employed, or agricultural operator changes, the party continuing the business must apply for a new Finnish Business ID.

If a private trader or self-employed changes legal entity form to a general partnership, limited partnership or tax consortium, file a start-up notification Y2 and a notification of changes Y6. If a private trader or self-employed changes legal entity form to a limited liability company, file a notification of changes (amendments), start-up notification Y1 and appendix form 1 of the PRH.

New sector of business to be declared to the Trade Register

If you make changes to the company’s sector of business, even only in part, indicate the new sector of business as a whole.

New main sector (line of business) to be declared to the Tax Administration

Enter the new main sector of the company, which is the sector in which the company mainly operates. If the new main sector is not included in the line of business registered at the Finnish Trade Register, the company must change the articles of association, rules or bylaws, and file the changes with the Trade Register.

Please note that the company can have only one main sector (main line of business), and it will be shown in the company and organisation search at ytj.fi.

Use the five-digit TOL 2008 code provided by Statistics Finland.

Go to the Standard Industrial Classification TOL 2008 on the Statistics Finland website.

Additional information to the PRH and the Tax Administration

Use this field to give additional information if necessary.

You can report for instance information about representatives, holders of procuration or business licences to the PRH. Please note that the details you submit to the PRH on the form will be publicly available to everyone.

You can report to the Finnish Tax Administration for instance information about interruption of business or liability to pay tax on insurance premiums.

Read more about interruption of business and liability to pay tax on insurance premiums.

Where will accounting books be kept in storage after the company has been dissolved?

Fill in this section if you are filing a notification of termination.

If you file a notification of termination of business with the Finnish Trade Register, specify where the accounting books are kept in storage. (chapter 2, section 10 of the Finnish Accounting Act).

Name of contact person

Indicate the person or company that can provide further information about the notification. This contact person is always notification-specific.

Declare the contact details of the person providing further information using the personal data form. The contact details of the person providing further information are not public in notifications that become pending as of 1 January 2025.

The PRH will send the contact person a register extract or a request to correct or supplement the notification, if necessary. If the company does not indicate a contact person, the PRH will send the register extract to the company’s address.

The Finnish Tax Administration always sends registration notices and requests for information, if necessary, to the company’s address entered on page 1 or on page 3 under “Postal address to be given to the Tax Administration use only”.

Date and signature

Remember to add the date, signature and printed name.

You can also authorise someone else to sign the notification. Enclose an original general power of attorney or a certified copy of a special power of attorney.

Please note that if you are in business with your spouse, your spouse signs the form on page 3.

Postal address to be given to the Tax Administration use only

The Finnish Tax Administration will send correspondence to the company’s postal address indicated for public use on page 1. Alternatively, you can enter a separate postal address only for the use of the Finnish Tax Administration.

If you only want to make changes to the address for public use, indicate here the address to which the Finnish Tax Administration should send correspondence.

Information on the party continuing the business

Tick the box if the company will continue the predecessor's business operations or agricultural operations. Enter the Finnish Business ID and name of the predecessor.

Tick the box if the company will terminate the business operations or agricultural operations, and the operations are then continued by for instance a buyer. Enter the Business ID of the party continuing the business. If the Business ID is not known, enter the name of the party continuing the business. Enclose a copy of a deed of purchase, if any.

VAT liability

The company may register for VAT or request VAT taxpayer status. The company can also indicate that VAT registration is terminated. Select the most appropriate alternative and enter the start or end date of operations in the format dd.mm.yyyy.

If the company does not consider itself liable for VAT, it must file a statement of the grounds.

Go to the Vero.fi website for further information about VAT.

Registration for VAT

Enter the date as of which the company registers for VAT.

The company can:

register trade or business for VAT
register purchases; withdrawal of goods for own use; for VAT
register notification obligation for sales of services in the EU
as a primary producer
register the sale of art objects for VAT.
register for VAT as a foreign company
register only for notification duty as a foreign company
register for VAT as a distance seller, foreign company.

Read more about registration for VAT.

VAT taxpayer status is requested

In some cases, companies may request VAT taxpayer status on their own initiative even if they are not liable for VAT by law. A company that has requested VAT taxpayer status is usually registered for VAT from the date of receipt of the notification.

The company can request VAT taxpayer status

for the transfer of rights to use immovable property
as a small-scale business operator
for intra-Community acquisitions
as a primary producer
as an art object producer
as a foreign enterprise
as a distance seller, foreign company.

Read more about requesting VAT taxpayer status. LINKKI Veron tekstiin

Terminating the VAT

Indicate if the company’s VAT registration is terminated.

Read more how to report termination of VAT-liable activities to the Finnish Tax Administration.

Spouses engage in business together

Tick the box if you register for VAT or request VAT taxpayer status for trade or business, as a primary producer or for the transfer of rights to use immovable property, and you run the business with your spouse. For this jointly-run business, as a rule, one of the spouses will be entered as liable for VAT and the other spouse will have liability for taxes when it comes to VAT. One of the spouses must sign here.

The company does not consider itself liable for VAT

If the company does not consider itself liable for VAT, select the appropriate reason and give more details on page 4 under “Additional information to the Tax Administration”.

For easier processing, enclose a written statement or supplement. For instance, enclose a statement of the grounds if you sell healthcare services.

Even if the company’s main business operations are exempted from VAT, the company may be liable for VAT if it has other business operations subject to VAT.

Go to the Vero.fi website for further information about business operations that are exempted from VAT.

For agricultural or forestry operators

If you bought a farm or forest this year, enter the date of purchase. Enclose a copy of a transfer of title, for example of a deed of purchase or a deed of gift. If you are engaged in agriculture as a tenant farmer, enclose a copy of the rental contract.

Accounting system

Self-employed individuals must keep accounts of their business. Indicate your accounting system.

Go to the Finnish Tax Administration website for further information about the accounting system. LINKKI Veron tekstiin

Changing or discontinuing the payment of wages

If the company is an employer paying wages on a regular basis, enter the start date of payment. The information about the entry in the Employer Register is publicly available to anyone as set out in the Finnish Business Information Act.

Read more about how a company registers as an employer paying wages on a regular basis or stops being a regular payer of wages. LINKKI Veron tekstiin

Changes or termination concerning Prepayment Register

If the company is applying for entry in the Prepayment Register, enter the filing date of the application or the start date of operations as the start date.

The entry in the Prepayment Register will be publicly available for anyone in the company and organisation search at ytj.fi.

Companies that operate or intend to operate a trade, business, farm or other activity that generates income can be entered in the Prepayment Register. When the company has a valid registration in the Prepayment Register, the payer does not need to withhold tax on the compensation (such as royalties, trade income or other nonwage compensation).

The Finnish Tax Administration can deny the entry of a newly established company into the Prepayment Register if a person in charge of the company, or a company the person has previously been in charge of, has substantially neglected their tax payment obligation, tax-related notification duty, accounting obligation, or other tax-related obligations.

The company is discontinuing the prepayment-registered status

The company will be deregistered from the Prepayment Register if the company’s operations have ended completely. Enter the end date of operations. The company can be deregistered from the Prepayment Register if the company’s line of business has changed and the new line of business does not require entry in the Prepayment Register. Deregistration is made no earlier than when this form arrives.

Tax period of self-assessed taxes

Enter the company’s turnover (=sales) and the desired tax period for VAT and employer contributions.

Please note that if you leave the fields empty, the Finnish Tax Administration will automatically register your company for monthly processing.

Read our instructions for selecting the tax period of self-assessed taxes.

I am a primary producer or a creator of works of art, and my reporting and my tax period is normally one year
If you are a primary producer or a creator of works of art, your tax period is normally one year. Indicate if you wish to have a shorter tax period when starting operations.

Read our instructions for selecting the tax period of self-assessed taxes for primary producers or creators of works of art. LINKKI Veron tekstiin

Details for income-tax prepayment

Tick the box if you are applying for prepayment electronically. Apply online via MyTax.

To determine the income-tax prepayment, enter the company’s estimated sales and estimated taxable income in the first accounting period.

Please note that the income-tax prepayment will also be affected by your other income for the calendar year.