Old employees: No need to submit your tax card to the employer if your tax information has not changed

The tax authorities directly provide the University of Helsinki with the tax information of all who receive a salary, fee or grant from the University between 1 September 2014 and 1 February 2015 or who have a valid employment contract or grant on 1 February 2015. These employees need not submit their tax card to the employer. The employer automatically uses the information indicated on the employee’s tax card and selects alternative A as the method of taxation.

The basic tax card for the gross income from your main employment features two alternative methods of withholding tax: alternative A sets a separate income ceiling for each pay period, whereas alternative B sets a single income ceiling for the entire year. Each employee can select which alternative to use, i.e., whether the employer is to withhold tax based on an income ceiling for each pay period or for the entire year. You cannot change this selection during the course of the year even if you change employers.

If you wish to select the alternative based on an annual income ceiling (select B on the tax card) or to use a higher tax rate (the annual income ceiling cannot be raised) than that indicated on the tax card, you must submit your revised tax card to Personnel Services as soon as possible. For instructions for submitting tax cards, see Submission of tax cards below.

You can also ask the tax authorities to submit your new revised tax card directly to Personnel Services if you wish to change the information on the tax card sent to your home address.

New employees: Submit your tax card to the employer

Those who have not received a salary, fee or grant from the University of Helsinki between 1 September 2014 and 1 February 2015 or do not have a valid employment contract on 1 February 2015 must submit their tax card to Personnel Services either as an email attachment or by post as soon as possible.

Submission of tax cards

Tax cards based on an annual income ceiling (alternative B), revised tax cards and the tax cards of new employees must be submitted to Personnel Services either as a scanned email attachment to palkka@helsinki.fi (type verokortti 2015 and the name of your faculty/department/unit in the subject field) or as a hard copy to the City Centre or Viikki Personnel Services as soon as possible, no later than 28 January 2015.

City Centre Personnel Services

City Centre and Meilahti units
- Postal address: PO Box 4, 00014 University of Helsinki
- Street address: Vuorikatu 5, 2^nd floor, Helsinki
City Centre Personnel Services

Viikki Personnel Services

Kumpula and Viikki units as well as FIMM
- Postal address: PO Box 62, 00014 University of Helsinki
- Street address: Viikinkaari 11 A, 2^nd floor (Infotalo), Helsinki
Viikki Campus Personnel Services

You can also submit your tax card to the human resources officer of your faculty/department/unit, who will forward it to Personnel Services.

NB! Please retain your December 2014 payslip for review of your taxation in 2014. If you choose to receive an online version of your payslip, you can easily and reliably access your salary information through your online bank. To change the method of delivery for your payslip, please log in to SAP HR and use the following path: Employee desktop > Edit your information > Your other information.