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Change your business details

If your business details on the Trade Register have changed, you must submit a notification of the change to us as soon as possible.

Please see the detailed instructions on how to file a notification of changes, by company type, in the menu.

Before filing your notification of changes with the Finnish Trade Register

We recommend that you check your current Trade Register details in the Virre Information Service to see what changes and additions you have to make. Go to the Virre Information Service.Open link in a new tab

If you want to change the name of your business, check first registered names in our Name checking service for companies.Open link in a new tab

If you want to change the definition of the line of business, read more about line of business in Finnish or in Swedish.

If you want to change the address or contact details of your business, read further instructions for changing address or contact details.

If you have filed your company’s email address, you will always get an automatic email when we have received your notification of changes at the Finnish Trade Register. Read our instructions on how you can monitor the changes in your company’s details.

Please note that the company's email address shown in the company and organisation search at ytj.fi is public.

Notification of changes online

You can file notifications online using the service or using paper notification forms.

The online service is on the Business Information System website at ytj.fi. Go to the Business Information System website at ytj.fi.Open link in a new tab

Please note that online filing is only available in Finnish and in Swedish.

Notification of changes using paper form

If you use our paper notification forms, remember to use the correct notification form: we make no entries in the Trade Register on the basis of notifications that are free in form, such as letters etc.

The notification forms are on the Business Information System website at ytj.fi. Go to the Business Information System website at ytj.fi.Open link in a new tab

Please fill in the form either in Finnish or in Swedish.

Write the details that have changed, such as new postal address, new line of business, new municipality (location) where the company is managed (place of registered office), or new auxiliary company name and lines of businesses involved.

Notification of beneficial owners

Most companies must file a notification of their actual beneficial owners with the Finnish Trade Register and thereafter keep the details in the Trade Register up to date. For example, limited liability companies and co-operatives must file a notification of beneficial owners. Private traders do not file a notification.

The notification of beneficial owners is free of charge. Read more about notification of beneficial owners.

Filing financial statements with the Finnish Trade Register

The law requires companies to file their financial statements with the Finnish Trader Register. Companies must also make sure that all financial statement documents required by law are being filed.

The PRH records that the financial statements have been registered in the Finnish Trade Register. Once your financial statements have been registered, you will receive a register extract to your company’s mailing address recorded in the Finnish Business Information System at ytj.fi.

Read our instructions on how to file financial statements.

Monitor the progress of your notification online

Monitor the progress of your notification using the notification search in the Virre Information Service. Search by using the Business ID or the record number. Go to the notification search in the Virre Information Service.Open link in a new tab

Printable version Latest update 29.10.2024