On 27 December 2018, Finland published Law 1237/2018 in the Official Gazette, which provides new interest deduction restriction rules that are compliant with the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive. Key points of the rules are as follows:

• The general 25% of EBITDA interest deduction restriction for net interest expense is extended to both related and unrelated party debt;
• The EUR 500,000 safe har…