Population of Helsinki by taxable income 2001—

Helsinki’s 15-year-old population, according to income subject to state taxation, starting in 2001. The data contain data on the income subject to state taxation (EUR) of the population aged 15 or over on the last day of the year. The data are based on data from the Tax Administration’s tax database on state-taxed income. Income subject to State tax is considered to be income of at least EUR 2. Due to confidentiality provisions, income information is not presented if it concerns less than five persons. The ##income concept ‘State taxable income’ includes total earned income and total capital income. NO, NO, NO, NO! Due to changes in taxation, the concept is not comparable in time due to changes in taxation in 2005. The ‘Other’ printed at the end of the table includes cases that do not fall within any area or coordinates are missing or incorrect. ##Data source The data on income subject to state taxation are collected from Statistics Finland’s database of economic activity and employment, for which they were obtained from the Tax Board’s tax database. ##Income Information Income subject to State tax: Any income received as a cash or cash benefit. With the exception of some social assistance, pensions, daily allowances and allowances such as child benefits, housing allowances, income support, supplements to national pensions, scholarships and grants received from public bodies. The taxable income of natural persons is divided into income from earnings and capital. Capital income includes, for example, rental income, equity income from dividends, gain on disposal of assets, capital income from forestry, private insurance benefits and interest income subject to income tax. Pure capital income is obtained by subtracting natural deductions from capital income. The income from capital in the tax year is obtained when interest and losses from agriculture or business are deducted from the pure capital income. The taxable capital income is obtained by deducting from the capital income of the tax year the losses of the capital income of previous years. The corporate income to be distributed may be capital or earned income. Earnings and capital income shares are calculated on the basis of the company’s net worth so that 18 per cent of the net worth is capital income and the rest is earned income. However, capital gains are always capital gains. Business income to be distributed is agricultural income, business income, i.e. pure income from the pursuit of a business or profession, and income from a grouping, which is the share of the group’s shareholder in the income of the group. The groupings are not separate taxable persons; their income is distributed entirely to the shareholders. Earned income includes, for example, wage income, sickness insurance daily, maternity and parental allowances, unemployment benefits, child home care allowance and private care allowance, pension income, study grants, pure forestry income and earned income from abroad. When natural deductions are deducted from earned income, pure earned income is obtained. The earned income of the tax year of central government taxation is obtained by subtracting the deductions made in state taxation from pure earned income. The taxable earned income from state taxation is obtained by subtracting the losses of the type of earned income confirmed for previous years from the income of the State tax year.