Food couriers
Accounting for Wolt and Foodora couriers in Finland
If you deliver food for an app such as Wolt or Foodora as a sole trader (toiminimi), your books are the platform's payout statements, your receipts and your driver's log. We book them every month, keep tips outside the VAT, and file your VAT returns and your business tax return, for the sole trader price of 69 euros a month plus VAT, in English or Hindi. We are not affiliated with Wolt, Foodora or any other platform.
What we do for you
- Book the platform's payout statements and your receipts every month, so delivery fees, the platform's charges and tips each land in the right place, and reconcile them with what the platform reports.
- Keep tips separate. A tip the customer gives voluntarily carries no VAT, though it is still taxable income, so VAT is calculated on everything except the tips.
- File the VAT return for your VAT period once you are in the VAT register, which you must join when your total turnover passes 20 000 euros in a calendar year. Delivery work then carries VAT at 25.5 %.
- Work out the car's tax treatment from your driver's log: more than 50 % of the kilometres for the business makes the car a business asset; otherwise it stays private, and the log decides what you can deduct.
The traps we watch for
- Fuel VAT on a passenger car. If you are VAT-registered and deliver by passenger car, even a little private driving means no VAT deduction on the car or its fuel. With a van, a moped or a bicycle you deduct the VAT on the business share.
- The 60 % withholding. If you are paid as work compensation but are not in the prepayment register, the payer withholds tax according to your tax card, or 60 % without one. Joining the prepayment register avoids this.
- A substitute courier. What you pay a substitute is deductible, but if they are not in the prepayment register you must withhold tax, pay it to the Tax Administration and report the payment to the Incomes Register.
- YEL. Pension insurance is compulsory once your YEL income is at least 9 423.09 euros a year in 2026 and the other conditions are met; see our article on YEL.
- The platform report. Platforms report what they paid you to the Tax Administration once a year, so we reconcile your books with their figures.
The rules in full are in our article on food courier taxes, and the deductions couriers often miss, from the phone to the bag, in our article on deductions a sole trader forgets.
Prices
| What | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Sole trader | 69 € / month | Bookkeeping, VAT returns, the business tax return at year-end, the accounting software, and the answers in between. No limit on receipts. Above 240 000 euros of turnover the company prices apply. |
| Company (Oy), turnover up to 240 000 € | 199 € / month | Bookkeeping, VAT returns, the financial statements and the tax return at year-end, the accounting software, and the answers in between. No limit on receipts. |
| Company (Oy), turnover over 240 000 € | 249 € / month | The same work for a bigger business. Still one fixed figure, still no limit on receipts. |
| Payroll | 15 € / run | One run is one pay date, whether you pay one person on it or a few. It covers the payslips, the Incomes Register report within five days, and the payments due on the 12th. Charged only in the months a payroll is actually run, whether that is once a year or every month. |
Couriers pay the sole trader price: 69 euros a month plus VAT, with no limit on receipts and the business tax return included.
How it starts
Email us which platforms you deliver for, whether you are in the VAT register and what vehicle you use. You get a written price before any work starts, approve our Suomi.fi mandate request, and send the month's payout statements and receipts. See also accounting for sole traders.
Tell us about your business
Say whether you are a sole trader or a limited company, roughly how many receipts and sales invoices you have a month, and whether you pay salaries. You get a written price before anything starts.
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