{"id":115002,"date":"2024-12-13T09:29:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T09:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edenred.pt\/uncategorized\/meal-allowance-exempt-amount-on-card-rises-to-e10-20\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:31:00","slug":"meal-allowance-exempt-amount-on-card-rises-to-10-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edenred.pt\/en\/news\/employee-benefits\/meal-allowance-exempt-amount-on-card-rises-to-10-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Meal allowance: Exempt amount on card rises to \u20ac10.20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The approval of the State Budget for 2025 brings with it important changes for companies and workers, including an increase in the exemption from the meal allowance<\/strong> when it is granted through a social voucher (meal card).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find out with us what’s going to change!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tax-free amount over \u20ac10.20 in card<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After being increased to \u20ac8.32\/day in November 2022, and to \u20ac9.60\/day in April 2023, the maximum amount of the meal allowance exempt from taxation on cards <\/strong>has risen again, this time to \u20ac10.20\/day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this change has a significant difference to the previous ones: it only applies when the meal allowance is paid by card<\/a>. The maximum amount exempt from taxation will remain at \u20ac6.00\/day if the allowance is paid in cash, together with the salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In practice, the amount exempt from tax on meal cards used to be 60% more than the legal limit for public workers and, from now on, it will be 70% more. As such, the amounts to be considered are now as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n