Frequently asked questions about public lending remunerations

We pay remunerations for the most borrowed books and e-audiobooks. This means that not all books and e-audiobooks available for loan in libraries will receive remunerations.

On the ‘Omat kirjat’ (My books) page of the public lending right scheme service, you can see all of the books for which you are registered in our database as a remuneration recipient.

If you are a visual artist, please make sure that you are registered as a visual artist of your books that are entitled to remunerations. You can read more about the criteria for remunerations on the ‘Public lending remunerations for visual artists’ page.

If you are a narrator and think that you are entitled to remunerations for an e-audiobook you have narrated, please contact our customer service team. This allows us to check whether a book you narrated is among the books that are entitled to remunerations.

Our primary payment of remunerations takes place annually in May. Additionally, we pay remunerations on a monthly basis as incomplete author information is completed. We are constantly working to complete the information and contact the authors. The remunerations for each year are available for three years.

Our next primary payment will take place in May 2026, at which time we will pay remunerations for loans in 2024.

You will be able to see an estimate of the amount payable to you on the ‘Kertyneet korvaukset’ (Accrued remunerations) page of the public lending right scheme service shortly before payment takes place. The vast majority of recipients receive their remunerations once a year in May when we make our primary payments.

You can see more detailed information on the remunerations paid to you in your remuneration calculation sheets on the ‘Maksetut korvaukset’ (Paid remunerations) page.

There may be several reasons why you have not received remunerations:

• you are not registered in the public lending right scheme service
• if you are a visual artist, you are not registered in the public lending right scheme service as a visual artist of your book
• your books are not currently among the most borrowed books
• incomplete payment information, such as a missing bank account number or tax card.

You can always ask our customer service team.

On the ‘Omat kirjat’ (My books) page of the public lending right scheme service, you can see all of the books for which you are registered in our database as a remuneration recipient. If you notice that your information is incomplete, please contact our customer service team.

You can see more detailed information on the remunerations paid to you in your remuneration calculation sheets on the ‘Maksetut korvaukset’ (Paid remunerations) page.

Copyright remunerations are taxable income. We receive most of our tax information directly from the Tax Administration. Check your withholding tax rate provided to us in the public lending right scheme service.

If you are receiving remunerations for the first time, or if there are changes to your tax information during the year, please send us a new tax card securely via our uploading service. Pensioners and minors must submit their tax cards every year. We cannot adjust withholding tax afterwards. The withholding tax is not applied to remunerations under EUR 20.

If you are a permanent resident of a foreign country and thus have limited tax liability in Finland, please fill out our withholding tax form and submit it to us. In the event that your limited tax liability ends, please submit a valid tax card to us.

If you receive copyright remunerations as an heir of the actual author, capital tax will be deducted from the remunerations.

As the heir of a deceased author, you can receive copyright remunerations. We can pay remunerations to heirs once we have been informed of the death of an author and provided with the information necessary for payment.

In such cases, please contact our customer service team.