35. Are there provisions for any other form of indirect public funding?
Finland
The donations received by political parties, constituency associations and support groups of a given candidate are exempt from tax. Donations to an individual candidate are considered as gifts liable to taxation if the amount received from the same donor over a period of three years comes to or exceeds 3,400 EUR.
GRECO (2007) Evaluation Report on Finland on Transparency of Party Funding (Theme II), p.7.
Free use of the postal service for the purpose of contacting voters is very common internationally (including, for example, Austria, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom).
Cost of Democracy: Essays on Political Finance in Latin America. International IDEA. 2016, p.13.