Trade Register, Register of Associations, Register of Foundations and auditors: Changes to handling fees from 1 January 2026
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland has issued a decree on the chargeable services of the PRH for the period 1 January to 31 December 2026.
The new price lists are published at prh.fi on 1 January 2026.
See the changes in the handling fees for the Finnish Trade Register, Register of Associations, Register of Foundations, and Register of Auditors below.
Trade Register: handling fees
Start-up notifications
- Guided set-up package for limited liability companies 300 euros
- Start-up notification for general or limited partnerships 300 euros
- Start-up notification for private traders 75 euros
- Start-up notification for other traders 400 euros
Notifications of changes and financial statements
- Change of company type, not requiring a public notice 300 euros
- Notification of changes concerning the board of directors, supervisory board, holders of procuration, persons entitled to sign for the company, auditors, managing director, or house manager 55 euros per matter
- Change of the place of registered office or line of business of a private trader 55 euros per matter
- Notification of company name or parallel company name using a notification of changes, or notification of auxiliary 75 euros per company name
- Notification of changes concerning articles of association, rules or bylaws 300 euros
- Notification of changes concerning partnership agreement 150 euros
- Notification of changes concerning shares or share capital 300 euros
- Decision on the issue of option rights 460 euros
- Loss of capital 55 euros
- Notification the registration of which requires a public notice to be issued to the creditors of the limited liability company when the share capital is being reduced, the articles of association are being changed, or they are being derogated from, or the company form is being changed 300 euros + 200 euros per public notice
- Other notification of changes 55 euros per matter
- Filing of financial statements for a financial period ending before 1 December 2024, later than within eight months from the end of the financial period 105 euros
Merger, demerger and transfer of registered office
- Notification of draft terms of merger, demerger, or transfer of registered office 260 euros per company
- Application for a public notice in merger, demerger, or transfer of registered office 200 euros per each company listed on the public notice
- Notification of implementation of merger, demerger, or transfer of registered office 260 euros per company
- Notification of lapse or cancellation of merger, demerger, or transfer of registered office 55 euros per company
Trade Register: Other applications
- Application for a public summons to the creditors of the organisation 200 euros
- Other application matters given notice of in the Official Journal 200 euros
- Application for an exceptional permission to act as member of the supervisory board or board of directors, managing director or liquidator in a limited liability company, or member of the board of directors or house manager in a housing company 150 euros
- Application for revocation of a registered company name 420 euros
- Other application matters 55 euros
Go to the Trade Register price list at prh.fi.
Register of Associations: handling fees
Preliminary checks
Preliminary check of rules or rule changes 400 euros
Start-up notifications
- Start-up notification of an association, Central Chamber of Commerce or chamber of commerce 120 euros
- Start-up notification of an association using the guided process 60 euros
- Start-up notification of a religious community, a local community or congregation 230 euros
- Start-up notification of a European grouping of territorial cooperation 230 euros
Notification of changes
- Notification of changes concerning the rules of an association (no preliminary check made) 120 euros
- Notification of changes concerning the rules of an association (preliminary check made) 60 euros
- Notification of changes concerning the bylaws of a religious community, or the rules of a local community or congregation 230 euros
- Notification of changes concerning the name or the domicile of a local community or congregation 60 euros
- Notification of changes concerning the chairperson, the executive committee, or persons entitled to sign for the association 30 euros
- Composition of organs of the Central Chamber of Commerce or chambers of commerce (section 2 of the Finnish Act on Chambers of Commerce) 30 euros
- Notification of changes concerning the statute or the cooperation convention of a European grouping of territorial cooperation 230 euros
- Notification of changes concerning the members or the right to sign on behalf of a European grouping of territorial cooperation 30 euros
Register of Associations: applications
- Application for a public summons to the creditors of the organisation 200 euros
- Application for the appointment of a liquidator 55 euros
- Other application matters 55 euros
- Exemption (Finnish Associations Act, 503/1989, section 35) 120 euros
Go tothe Register of Associations price list at prh.fi.
Register of Foundations: handling fees
Preliminary checks
Preliminary check of by-laws or changes to by-laws 920 euros
Start-up notifications, notifications of changes and annual reports
- Start-up notification for a foundation (no preliminary check made) 920 euros
- Start-up notification for a foundation (preliminary check made) 230 euros
- Notification of changes to the by-laws of a foundation (no preliminary check made) 920 euros
- Notification of changes to the by-laws of a foundation (preliminary check made) 230 euros
- Notification of changes to a foundation’s board of trustees, supervisory board, persons entitled to sign for the foundation, auditors or managing director 115 euros
- Notification of auxiliary company name 115 euros per name
- Other notifications of changes 115 euros
- Filing of annual reports when the annual reports are filed with the register later than within six months from the end of the financial period 105 euros
Mergers
- Notification of draft terms of merger 570 euros per foundation or organization
- Application for a public notice to creditors, in mergers 470 euros + 240 euros per the foundation or organization the public notice concerns
- Notification of the implementation of merger 130 euros per foundation or organization
Register of Foundations: applications
- Request for a public notice to creditors 240 euros
- Other application given notice of in the Official Journal 240 euros
- Application for an exceptional permission to be a founder of a foundation, a member of a foundation’s board of trustees or supervisory board, the managing director or a liquidator 140 euros
- Other application matters 115 euros
Go to the Register of Foundation price list at prh.fi.
Auditors
Application for an exception to the maximum duration of audit engagements 2,000 euros
Go to the auditor oversight price lists at prh.fi in Finnish and Swedish.
For more information, please contact
Trade Register and Register of Associations: Go to PRH customer service contact details.
Auditor oversight: Go to auditor oversight contact details.