Financial guidelines by topic

Red Cross roll-ups that read 'I help and I care' in the lobby. Two people reading a brochure in the foreground.

Photo: Lassi Häkkinen / Suomen Punainen Risti

This page brings together financial guidelines for Finnish Red Cross branches by topic. Click on a topic and read how to take care of your branch's finances. The guidelines are currently only available in Finnish and Swedish.

Instructions for procurement in Finnish

Instructions for procurement in Swedish

Guidelines of the organizational bank in Finnish

Guidelines of the organizational bank in Swedish

Guidelines for travel claim and expense reimbursements in Finnish

Guidelines for travel claim and expense reimbursements in Swedish

Skattepliktig och skattefri verksamhet i avdelningarna.pdf

Instructions in Finnish and Swedish for organizing and settling the Hunger Day collection.

Guidelines for using the Ossi branch register tool in Finnish and Swedish.

Every person who manages the branch's affairs in any electronic capacity authenticates themselves using their own online banking credentials or mobile certificate for identification. For this reason, branches must grant authorizations to all necessary persons who handle the branch's affairs in electronic services, e.g. Incomes Register notifications, other matters related to acting as an employer and taxation, applying for association grants from the city/municipality, etc.

Please also carefully review the Suomi.fi instructions for branches (in Finnish and Swedish) found at the bottom of this page, so that you can make a decision at the board meeting about what authorizations your branch needs and who the persons to be authorized are.

As we are an association based on special legislation, which has no information in the Register of Associations or the Trade Register regarding persons with signing authority, we use an application to be submitted in the Suomi.fi online service: Application for the registration of a mandate– Suomi.fi. Please therefore select from your branch a person with signing authority to whom an authorization can be granted, preferably two persons. This is so that if one of them leaves their position or similar, the application does not have to be submitted again, as another person will still have the right to represent the branch.

If needed, you can also contact your own district office.

The Financial Information Form in Finnish

The Financial Information Form in Swedish

Financial Statements in Finnish

Financial Statements in Swedish

A change has been made to the Incomes Register reporting deadlines regarding tax-free reimbursements and one-time payments of up to 200 euros:

Tax-free expense reimbursements, such as daily allowances and kilometer reimbursements, can be reported monthly by the fifth day of the month following the payment date. The payments can be reported in a single report once a month, even if a person has multiple expense reimbursement payment dates within the same month. In this case, the payment date recorded on the report shall be the last expense reimbursement payment date of the month.

One-time payments of up to 200 euros made by a registered association can be reported monthly by the fifth day of the month following the payment date. The branches of the Finnish Red Cross may also follow this deadline guideline when reporting taxable payments of up to 200 euros.

If a branch only has occasional small reimbursements to report and does not have a Suomi.fi identifier, information can still be submitted to the Incomes Register using a paper form. Forms and completion instructions can be found on the Incomes Register website at https://www.vero.fi/en/reporting-on-paper/.