tulopohjan

Tulopohjan is the genitive form of the Finnish noun tulopohja. Tulopohja is a compound noun formed from tulo, meaning income or revenue, and pohja, meaning base or foundation. The term is used in Finnish to denote a base related to incoming values or quantities; its precise meaning depends on the field or context in which it appears.

In financial and economic contexts, tulopohja commonly refers to the income base used for calculations of taxes or social contributions. In other technical or discipline-specific domains, the term may describe the base of an inlet, the starting point of a process, or another foundational reference, again depending on specialized vocabulary. Because the meaning of tulopohja is field dependent, the exact sense of tulopohjan will vary accordingly when used in phrases or titles.

The genitive form tulopohjan is used to indicate possession or attribution, as in tulopohjan määrittely (definition of the income base) or tulopohjan rakenne (the structure of the income base). As with many Finnish compound nouns, the specific interpretation of tulopohjan relies on the surrounding context and the terminology of the relevant discipline.

See also: tulo, pohja.