Just one thousand Finns accounted for 20 percent of the nation's taxable capital income. According to Helsingin Sanomat, this highlights the country's stark concentration of wealth.
This trend has accelerated since a 1992 tax reform under Esko Aho's government, which split the taxation of capital and earned income, subjecting capital income to lower, flat tax rates.
Earned income includes wages and pensions, while capital income comes from investments or owned assets, such as dividends, rental income, or property sale gains.
This means that today the wealthiest individuals in Finland derive most of their income from capital gains.
That said, the country's highest-earning wage earners, like Wolt co-founder Miki Kuusi, pay significantly higher tax rates than those with major capital income.
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Zapping for health
Depression is a big problem in Finland and studies have found that as many as one in three young adults suffer from it.
Hufvudstadsbladet looks at how magnetic stimulation through the temples helped one middle-aged sufferer rediscover joy.
The therapy, known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), transmits brief magnetic pulses to the front of the brain to influence brain cell activity.
"It feels like I've just been on a vacation. This immediate effect is bubbly, almost like I've had champagne," the patient told the attending physician, Stefan Lönnberg at the HUS Psychiatry Center in Helsinki.
Lönnberg said that two or three out of ten patients achieve remission, meaning their depression symptoms subside. In about half of the cases, patients experience a significant improvement in their symptoms.
Power down
Kauppalehti's most popular story concerns what you can and can't bring on Finnair planes following a fire that engulfed and destroyed a passenger plane in South Korea earlier this year.
A portable power bank likely caused that fire and airlines worldwide have since banned power banks from carry-on luggage.
KL asked what Finnair's stance was on passengers using power banks during flights.
"A power bank can be used during cruising, but using it to charge a device is prohibited while taxiing on the ground, as well as during takeoff and landing," the airline told the business daily.
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