Setting up a web hosting / design company in Finland

[Pursuivant]

you need to charge VAT for EU customers, the EU VAT rules are available on the net. and as the Finnish VAT is 22% you loose a bit of an edge there...

[DMC]

you need to charge VAT for EU customers

But not for EU customers that are VAT-registered I think. So long as you include their VAT number on your invoice.

[Patrick1970]

Well, I contacted the TE-Keskus some 3 or 4 days ago asking them whether I could speak with a startup advisor, but have not heard from them yet. I do hope they will contact me soon, and I assume someone there should be able to address me in English?

[Jason Wright]

I highly recommend Jari Parkkonen as a competent bookkepper with very reasonable fees with excellent English skills.

Jari Parkkonen, KTM, KLT
Tilitoimisto Parkkonen Oy
Uudenmaankatu 36 A 1
00120 Helsinki

Tel. (09) 7279 3949
Fax (09) 7279 3950
GSM 050 5292 879

http://www.tilitoimistoparkkonen.fi

[karel]

Agree with Jason.
Jari's been my accountant for the past 4 years and he's done an excellent job.
Only got money back from taxes, so

[Patrick1970]

Well, I got the book from the local library and am looking into it now.
I also went to the TE-Keskus myself since I did not receive any reply from them, and they referred me on to Kehitys Oy. So I contacted them recently to make some sort of appointment, but no reply from them yet either.

I did find the necessary forms online to register a toiminimi (from the prh.fi site) but I really would need someone who knows all the ropes to go over it with me, so I do hope they will contact me soon so that I can get this started.

Thanks Jason for the information on the accountant, I will certainly keep it in mind.