Procountor's income tax return function can be used to draw up Income tax return of associations and foundations 6C with its most common enclosures and file them electronically. The return can be sent in electronic form from Procountor directly to the tax authorities' service using the ApitamoPKI interface.
Income tax return function can be found from Notifications > Income tax return.
We have published an updated Income tax return 6C form for the year 2023 in the version update V75, 22.4.2023. This year Tax Administration has completely changed tax form 6C and because of this, we do not offer Procountor default account mappings and the new form is released without them. Read more about the changes on Tax administration website. Please update the Account Mappings according to the new Income Tax Return Form.
On the new form user must provide calculations for tax-free and taxable business activities as well as taxable real estate income and wood sales. Since, as a software supplier, we cannot know what kind of activity the association or foundation environment has, the user must do the mappings manually from start to finish. We recommend setting aside enough time for manual mapping. The following year, these entries will be copied onto the 2024 form.
More detailed instructions for editing income tax return mappings can be found here.
Buttons of Income tax return view
Create notifications
- Clicking on the button will open a window with a drop-down menu where you can select the fiscal year for the tax return. More than one tax return can be created for the same fiscal year.
Update reporting database
- Clicking on the button will update the reporting database.
- Information from the reporting database is retrieved for the income tax return, and if the database is not updated after the changes, the figures on the tax return will not be up-to-date.
Tax forms and publications
- Clicking on the will open a new browser window with the Finnish Tax Administration’s instructions for completing the income tax returns.
Open
- The button can be used to view the details of a tax return selected from the list.
Show invalidated
- Choosing the option will add invalidated tax returns to the list, enabling the viewing of previously created, invalidated tax returns.
Creating income tax return
1. In order to be able to create an income tax return, the financial year must be saved in the program under Management > Accounting info > Financial years.
- The income tax return form can be selected in Management > Accounting info > Tax information. On the opening view, there is a drop-down menu, with options 4, 5, 6A and 6B in addition to the form 6C (Tax return of association and foundation). When creating the 6C Tax return of association and foundation, it must be selected from the menu.
2. Go to Income tax return view (Notifications > Income tax return) and click on the Create notifications button.
3. Select the financial year and click on the Create button.
4. Clicking Create opens the Income tax return view in which, you can examine, edit and save the various sections and enclosures of the income tax return as well as send them.
- Procountor will automatically fill in some of the fields of the income tax return with the company info and accounting information.
- The value from accounts added manually to the chart of accounts may not be included in the calculation. More information about allocating accounts to the Income tax return can be found later from this same article under Account allocation to the Income tax return.
Buttons of the Income tax return creation view
Save
- The button saves the income tax return (all parts).
- Saved income tax return can be edited.
- After the income tax return is saved, Procountor re-calculates the sums. If all fields are wanted to be calculated again, the fields must be emptied and then click on the Save
Approve
- With the button, the income tax return is saved and it or its enclosures can no longer be edited.
- When the income tax return is approved, it and its enclosures are sent to tax authorities to be verified. Sending to verification does not require Certificate for reporting to the Tax Administration. Verification service makes sure the income tax return and its enclosures are formally right and thus they will be approved by tax authorities.
- After verification, user will receive a notification containing the information whether the report was approved, or the errors were found. If errors are found, the income tax return will not be approved, and it will stay in Unfinished status.
Return notification to unfinished
- Clicking on the button reverts the income tax return to Unfinished status and make changes to the return if needed.
Send
- Clicking the button sends the income tax return and its enclosures to tax authorities.
- Only the enclosures with content are sent.
- Note! Income tax return sent via ApitamoPKI interface receives feedback information from the Tax Administration that is shown in a separate window. This window may include remarks concerning the tax return. The Tax Administration does not compare information entered to the main form and possible attachment forms when the tax return is sent. Therefore, the remarks and reminders shown in the window are always formed regardless of, for example, if needed specifications have been made to certain attachment forms or not.
Invalidate
- With the button, the income tax return with status Unfinished or Approved can be invalidated.
Preview
- Button enables observing the income tax return in printable form.
- Note! The printout version in for internal use only and it is not valid to be sent to tax authorities.
- All fields and enclosures are showing on the printout version even if they do not have content. Only the enclosures with content are sent to tax authorities.
Show event history
- Clicking on the button will show you the event history of the income tax return. Event history window shows the events done to the notification, the timestamps when the changes were made and by whom the changes were made.
- Event history can be opened in Excel, PDF or HTML format with the corresponding buttons found in the bottom of the Event history window.
Help
- Button opens the income tax return instructions in Procountor’s online manual. The page is opened in a new tab, so the pop-up widows must be allowed on the browser that is used.
Tabs of the Income tax return creation view
Contact details
- The Contact information tab contains the information on the top of the first page of the association/foundation tax return. The program will complete the fields with content that can be retrieved directly from information saved in the program. For example, the program will retrieve the Name of taxpayer directly from company’s basic info (Management > Company info > Basic info).
- The contents of pre-completed fields can be edited.
- The contact person’s phone number is retrieved from Mobile phone number with country code (e.g. +358 50 xxx xxxx) field on Personal info and settings view.
Itemizations
- For example, the members, rules, founding and granting of association/foundation are itemized on the tab.
Income and expenses
- The tab consists the info on the income tax return’s second page’s section II.
- The contents of completed fields can be edited.
- The program calculates the profit to the field 621 and loss to the field 642 based on the entered figures.
- Sums can be updated by clicking Save
Other itemizations
- No info is automatically retrieved on the tab. Thus, all info must be manually entered.
Attachments
- Commonly used attachments are gathered on the tab. Tax authorities receive attachments also as printout versions. Please note, that the info on attachments cannot be changed after the income tax return is approved.
- Supplement forms can be saved without saving the income tax return, but attachments can be added only after the income tax return is saved.
- By clicking on the name/number on the supplement form column, the supplement form can be observed and edited or in case of an attachment, the attachment can be added.
- Tax authority does not deliver attachments from 6C form to the Finnish Patent and Registration Office.
Account allocation to the income tax return
- The mapping of accounts to the Income tax return's fields can be manually modified in Management > Accounting info > Tax information > Edit Income Tax Return Mappings. More information about this functionality can be found here: Edit Income Tax Return Mappings.
Sending
- When clicking on the Send button the report is sent by using the new ApitamoPKI interface.
Special situations
- Correcting errors in a notification: An income tax return cannot be edited after sending, which means that if something needs to be corrected, a new income tax return must be drafted and sent. The sent notifications are saved in the Procountor archive.
- Adding enclosures to the income tax return later: Enclosures cannot be added to the income tax return after sending, and individual enclosures cannot be sent to the Finnish Tax Administration through Procountor. Enclosures can be sent to the Finnish Tax Administration in, for example, the tax authorities’ online service.
- The supplement forms approved by tax authorities are always returned with income tax return 4, 6, 6C and 6B. So, the income tax return must always be returned alongside of the supplement form, even if there are no changes made to it. Information should be given on an online form or on a file produced by financial administration program. In this kind of case, it is recommended to contact tax authorities and agree on re-sending the income tax return.