Anyone can check another person’s Finnish tax records
Thursday 12th November 2026 on 04:15 in
Finland
Anyone can request another person’s public tax information from Finland’s Tax Administration, Yle reports, as the 2025 records become public today. A person’s permission or a reason for the request is not required.
How to request the information
Tax records can be checked at a Tax Administration service point, either on a customer terminal or by asking a staff member. Requests can also be made by phone at 029 497 002.
To find the right record, the requester needs the person’s name and the region where their municipality of residence was located on the final day of the year before the tax year.
What the records show
Public records include a person’s taxable earned income, taxable capital income and taxes paid. They also show any tax refund or tax still owed.
Taxable earned income is not the same as annual salary. Tax deductions have already been taken into account, and the records do not identify the sources of a person’s income. Capital income may also be reduced by previous losses, and some capital income is tax-exempt.
The records do not show a person’s wealth or assets, such as property, shares, funds or bank savings. Income from selling assets, and the tax paid on that income, is included.
Are requests tracked?
The Tax Administration does not track or register searches made on customer terminals, so it cannot later identify who looked up a particular person’s records. It counts requests made by phone or to staff, but does not record whose information was requested.
About 1,600 requests were made by phone or to staff in November 2025. In other months, there are usually fewer, with the number falling to a few hundred a month in summer. The authority does not keep figures on searches made using customer terminals.
Can people hide their tax records?
No. Public access applies to all taxpayers, and individuals cannot ask for their information to be removed from the public records.
Yle says it reports tax information to support fact-based public discussion, scrutiny of how power is used, and transparency that can build trust in society. It also notes that tax records do not tell the whole story: taxable income is not the same as salary, and the records do not reveal a person’s wealth.