Digia Supplies Finnish Tax Administration with an E-Service Application
Digia Plc Press release 8.4.2008
Digia has provided the Finnish Tax Administration with a network service which citizens can use to make adjustments to their pre-completed tax returns. As of early April, adjustments relating to travel costs can be notified electronically to tax officials.
For the first time, due to Digia’s solution, travel costs on tax returns can be corrected or specified on the Finnish Tax Administration web pages, if you have a web bank user ID and passwords at your disposal, or have an electronic ID card.
As of spring 2007, Digia has been participating in the digitalising of taxation services. The bilateral frame agreement between the Finnish Tax Administration and Digia relating to IT consultation was signed in 2008 and remains valid until 2012. The agreement is based on Hansel Ltd’s frame agreement pertaining to public administration technical IT consultation. During the next phase of the cooperation, the e-service application will be expanded to cover even more tax return amendment information that will be available for notification via the web service.
Annually, approximately 4.9 million individual customers of the Finnish Tax Administration receive a pre-completed tax return form. Approximately 800,000 of these customers return the form, 400,000 only in order to declare their travel costs.
“The Finnish Tax Administration is a forerunner in the development of e-services in Finland. This project proves our competence as a supplier of challenging, operation-critical information systems for the public sector. Essential factors in the solution are its user friendliness, reliability and accuracy of information. Furthermore, special attention has been paid to the scalability of the service,” says Ari Nuutinen, Director at Digia.
Further information:
Digia, Director Ari Nuutinen, tel. +358 40 513 1511
ari.nuutinen@digia.com
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