People who sporadically work from home are now eligible to make a 225-euro deduction from their annual income, reports business daily Kauppalehti.
The Finnish Tax Administration introduced new home office write-offs on Thursday.
With the pandemic shifting workers to home offices, many people have become entitled to a 900-euro home office tax break.
Taxpayers can deduct costs incurred for outfitting a home office, including items like a monitor, keyboard or mouse as well as any expenses associated with fixing or maintaining equipment. Expenses for desks and chairs are also tax deductible.
New challenges for public broadcasting
Hufvudstadsbladet reports that Yle’s Swedish-language arm says it’s prepared to limit its text-based content in a move to adhere to EU competitiveness rules.
The government has proposed that the state-owned Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) should generally only be allowed to publish text material to support video or audio broadcasts or releases.
The Swedish-language daily said Yle had a competitive advantage as it was taxpayer funded while commercial media outlets relied on subscriptions and advertisements to fund operations.
The proposal will now move on to legislators for parliamentary debate.
Catch of the day?
The quality of fish in the capital’s fresh fish counters has not improved in the past decade, reports Helsingin Sanomat.
In its investigation, HS found that just two-thirds of samples from fresh fish counters in the capital region met standards for good quality. These results follow on lab results from earlier this year indicating that a quarter of 135 samples were of poor quality.
A counter clerk told HS that one issue contributing to poor fish quality was grocers’ tendency to overload fish counters to make them more appealing for customers. Displaying large amounts of fish is, however, not ideal from a hygiene perspective, according to HS.
This is our final newspaper roundup of the year. This section will return in January.
