{"id":4322,"date":"2025-04-24T12:18:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T09:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yrittajakassa.fi\/become-unemployed\/milloin-yrittaja-on-tyoton\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:14:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:14:41","slug":"when-is-entrepreneur-unemployed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yrittajakassa.fi\/en\/did-you-become-unemployed\/when-is-entrepreneur-unemployed\/","title":{"rendered":"When is an entrepreneur considered unemployed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When is an entrepreneur considered unemployed?<\/h1><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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When is an entrepreneur considered unemployed?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Based on your overall situation and the type of business you run, the employment official will assess whether you are unemployed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You are unemployed if your business activities have ceased completely or your entrepreneurial status or self-employment have ended. The employment official will give a binding statement to the Entrepreneur Fund about your unemployment. We will process your claim for earnings-related daily unemployment allowance on the basis of this statement. If according to the statement you are not unemployed, we cannot pay you an earnings-related daily allowance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your business activities have ceased<\/summary>\n

Private entrepreneur, i.e. sole proprietor and light entrepreneur<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are unemployed if your business has ceased its productive and economic activity and you have terminated your YEL-insurance. You can register your business with the Tax Administration’s VAT, prepayment and employer registers and the Trade Register. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entrepreneur in a limited company, general partnership or limited partnership<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have ceased business activities, when you have terminated your pension insurance and:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. your business has ceased its productive and economic activity and\n
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    • your company has been removed from the Tax Administration\u2019s Prepayment Register and Employer Register. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • your company has been removed from the VAT Register, or you have notified the Tax Administration that your business operations have been suspended.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • you have submitted a notification to the Tax Administration’s prepayment and employer registers to have your business removed<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • you have submitted a notification to the Tax Administration to have your business removed from the VAT register or to suspend business activities, or<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • your company has been wound up, or<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • your business has been declared bankrupt , or<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • you have sold your business, or<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • the dissolution of a company other than a limited company is the subject of an agreement between the partners<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      You can keep your business in the Trade Register.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

      Your status as an entrepreneur has ended<\/summary>\n

      A part-owner’s status as an entrepreneur has ended when<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      • you have sold the shares you own , or<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • you own less than 50% of the company and you are no longer in a a managerial position*<\/em> in the company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        *You<\/em> hold a managerial position in your company if you are the managing director or a member of the board of a limited company or if you hold a similar position in a limited company\/other company\/entity.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

        Your work in your business has ceased<\/summary>\n

        Is your business still operational and your status as an entrepreneur has not ended? You can still be unemployed in limited circumstances. You are regarded as having ceased to work in a business if:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        1. Your sickness is prolonged<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        You are unemployed if you have received the maximum amount of sickness allowance for disability (approx. 300 days), provided that your disability pension claim is pending or rejected and your inability to work continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        or<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        2. Your seasonal business activity ends<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        If your business activity is seasonal (active up to 6 months a year due to natural conditions), the employment official may consider you unemployed at the end of the activity period. This seasonal nature will be assessed by the employment official when you register as an unemployed jobseeker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        or<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        3. You are an entrepreneur comparable to an employee and your commission relationship ends<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        You can be as an entrepreneur comparable to an employee if you are personally involved in the performance of the work in a way determined by the employer, you are in a commission relationship with the same few employers and you do not have a fixed place of purchase or sale or a similar establishment for carrying out the activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        In addition, you must not have had more than occasional employees in the last year since you registered as a jobseeker.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

        You have become a part-time entrepreneur<\/summary>\n

        In certain situations, you may be entitled to an adjusted earnings-related daily allowance if your business becomes a sideline. A reduction in income or work are not necessarily yet an indicators of part-time entrepreneurship, and thus the employment official will assess your overall situation. Your business can be part-time if you have been a full-time student or have been employed in a job that accrues the work wage-earner’s requirement for at least six months in addition to working in your business.
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        When is an entrepreneur considered unemployed? Based on your overall situation and the type of business you run, the employment official will assess whether you are unemployed. You are unemployed if your business activities have ceased completely or your entrepreneurial status or self-employment have ended. The employment official will give a binding statement to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4046,"parent":1245,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"5911,5916","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4322","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrittajakassa.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrittajakassa.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrittajakassa.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrittajakassa.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrittajakassa.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yrittajakassa.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4322\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrittajakassa.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrittajakassa.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrittajakassa.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}