Finnish taxi sector has always been highly regarded. Taxi has a long tradition of being a vital part of the Finnish society and an integral part of mobility especially in less habited area. As a flexible form of service, they support other forms of public transport and allow moving when using private cars are not an option.

Liberation of the market brought many new actors and new interest in business in the field. A clear set of rules and regulations can make this an enjoyable and profitable profession.

Total Revenue of the Taxi Business in Finland Circa EUR 1.1 billion

Public sector procurement makes roughly 40% of this. The rest is divided evenly between consumers and business customers.

The largest customer sector is municipalities and well-being counties where the school transports, the transports of old persons granted pursuant to Act 1301/2014 governing social welfare and the transports of severely disabled persons granted pursuant to Act 380/1987 governing the services of disabled persons are subjected to competitive tendering, and the services are produced by taxi companies and passenger traffic entrepreneurs. Another major customer is Kela that refunds the costs of taxi transport to and from medical care when other forms of transport cannot be used

Majority of Entrepreneurs are Sole Entrepreneurs

Approximately 10 000 holders of taxi traffic licences. Most sole entrepreneurs, driving themselves, have contracts with operating companies to get rides. Taxi entrepreneurship requires a licence, which entitles its holder to take rides everywhere in Mainland Finland.

Most of the taxi traffic licenses have been granted to private persons as sole entrepreneurs, i.e. the entrepreneur has a trade name and business identity code.

Additionally taxi sector employs tens of thousands of persons as drivers, part time and full time. There are also other jobs in the market as personnel for service operatives and in various other business positions.