Finnish media outlets are gearing up to cover "tax day," the annual tax data release, when the income and taxes of every taxpayer are made public.
News outlets, including Ilta-Sanomat, are busy on Wednesday morning compiling databases of everyone making over 100,000 euros last year.
This year taxpayers cannot ask the tax office to conceal their earnings from the list sent to media.
The median monthly full-time salary in Finland is just above 3,300 euros.
Seat assignment
Helsingin Sanomat's most-read story is a consumer complaint regarding Finnair. The paper recounts a passenger's annoyance over not being seated with her parents after paying 19 euros extra per seat to guarantee adjacent seats on a flight from Helsinki to Spain last month.
Finnair customer service told the passenger that despite paying extra, the assigned seat may differ by up to five rows from the reserved one. The customer service agent, however, said the passenger, who was travelling with a baby, would be seated with her parents in the same row on the return flight.
But this did not turn out to be the case.
"I was put at a completely different end of the plane than my parents, and even in a window seat at that. Passengers travelling with a baby are usually seated in the aisle," she told HS.
Finnair told the paper that over 96 percent of customers who purchase a seat get the one they wanted.
Influencer fined
Several outlets, including Hufvudstadsbladet, carry news of award-winning human rights activist Ujuni Ahmed's fraud conviction.
Ahmed took to Instagram to share the news, saying the conviction related to Kela benefit payments she received in 2018. The problem was that she had failed to report all of her earnings while receiving income support.
"I should have been aware of my reporting obligation, and I was ordered to pay 65-day fines as a fraud penalty," Ahmed told her followers on Instagram.
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