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At the top of 2023, 3.5 million employees in our nation used meal vouchers for his or her lunch break, of which 20% had been within the public sector (equal to 700 thousand folks). Meal vouchers are provided by greater than 150 thousand firms to their collaborators and are accepted by over 170 thousand affiliated companies. The identikit of the standard earner is that of the worker who works within the personal sector, significantly in business.
According to a survey carried out amongst 15,957 recipients and a pair of,379 retailers carried out by Altis-Catholic University for Anseb (the nationwide affiliation of firms issuing meal vouchers, which represents 85% of the nationwide market), 61% of meal voucher customers are males, 75% over 35, 46% have a diploma (adopted by 33% graduates, a most of 14% have a center faculty diploma and seven% an expert qualification), 53% work within the North (adopted by the South with 26% and the Center with 21%).
The use
It is a really versatile software provided that 89% of the pattern declares that they use the meal voucher for purchasing on the grocery store, but in addition in meals retailers (22%) at bars or diners (19%), eating places and taverns (16%). As for the classification of the recipients, 47% are employed, 44% employees, 8% managers or managers. Among the productive sectors, 22% work in business, 19% in public administration, 9% in monetary actions, 9% in commerce, 8% in schooling and providers. As for the alternatives, for 72% of employees the meal voucher is the perfect one, 16% opts for the free canteen service, 9% for the quantity on the pay slip (taxed).
Those who combine with cash enhance
In quick, in years of wages compressed by inflation, meal vouchers have contributed to sustaining the buying energy of employees’ wages. In nearly half of the instances the meal voucher covers 50-80% of the meal prices (48% of instances), in 25% of instances a great half (a minimum of 80%), in 18% lower than half of the fee, solely in 9% covers the whole value. The business community that accepts meal vouchers is recording a rise within the share of consumers who, utilizing the vouchers, have to complement with money. 16% of consumers pay for his or her lunch break in eating places with a minimum of one meal voucher, a share which rises to 19% in meals retailers.
The tax reduction
The meal voucher follows article 51 paragraph 2 letter c) of the TUIR and doesn’t contribute to forming the taxable work earnings of the worker as much as the whole day by day quantity of 8 euros (digital meal voucher) or 4 euros (meal voucher paper); any extra over this threshold is calculated for the needs of figuring out the taxable base. Today the typical worth of the meal voucher is 6.75 euros, and the ticket is issued to the employee for the completion of the working day (in lots of firms even when carried out in good working).