Register a company in Finland, the Nordic that runs on euros.

Yes. With an apostilled power of attorney we file at the PRH, register the tax entries and set up the address remotely. Banks decide their own meetings: Nordea and OP sometimes want one, fintechs onboard by video. We point you to the right first door.

Turnkey registration starts from €2,400 including PRH fees and the first year of the registered address. With a bank or fintech account arranged, packages start from €4,200. Renewals with accounting run from €1,800 a year.

A flat 20% on profits, the lowest headline in the Nordics, with no local surcharges. Dividends to EU parent companies leave at zero; distributions to you personally follow the entrepreneur regime below. VAT is 25.5% on domestic sales, zero-rated for exports and intra-EU supplies. We model your numbers before you commit.

Finland's reward for patient founders: dividends from an unlisted Oy are taxed lightly up to an annual return of roughly 8% of the company's net assets - the better your balance sheet, the cheaper your distributions. Above the thresholds normal rates apply. It favours capitalising the company rather than stripping it, and we plan around it explicitly.

At least half of the Oy's board members must be resident in the European Economic Area. Non-EEA founders solve it three ways: an EEA-resident co-director, our board-support service, or a PRH exemption in qualifying cases. We tell you which fits on day one, so the filing never bounces on a requirement we knew about.

Legally yes: the minimum was abolished in 2019 and the register treats a zero-capital Oy like any other. Practically, the dividend regime rewards net assets and banks read balance sheets, so most founders capitalise sensibly at or soon after incorporation. Nothing is locked; the money works from day one.

It is among the very highest in the EU, and it matters exactly when you sell to Finnish consumers. B2B, export and intra-EU businesses largely pass it through or zero-rate it. We price it into your model rather than let it surprise you.

Nordic-thorough. Nordea, OP and Danske run deep KYC on foreign-owned companies (ownership chain, substance, expected flows) and reward a clean file with excellent euro banking. Fintechs cover the operating layer faster. We prepare the file to that standard and start with the bank most likely to say yes.

Estonia wins for reinvesting startups: 0% until distribution and remote-first admin, but less Nordic brand weight. Sweden offers the biggest market at 20.6%, in krona. Finland is the balance: the region's lowest rate, the euro, the dividend regime, and a flag that reads «Nordic» everywhere. Which wins depends on what you're building.

Plan one to three weeks: days for documents and the board solution, one to two weeks at the PRH, then tax registers. Banking adds one to two weeks. Finland is never the fastest; it is the one that never needs redoing.