What is a service voucher?

The service voucher allows you, as a private individual in Belgium, to pay for household help in your home or outside your home at an advantageous rate.

1 hour worked = 1 service voucher, which costs you €9 after a 10% tax reduction.
*The tax reduction varies according to the region (20% in Flanders and Brussels, 10% in Wallonia)

In Flanders and Brussels, a €10 service voucher will therefore cost you €8, while in Wallonia the same service voucher will cost you €9, again after tax reduction.
Please note that you can order a maximum of 500 service cheques per year and per person (the first 300 service cheques at €10 and the following 200 service cheques at €12).

However, certain groups can order up to 2,000 service cheques (e.g. disabled persons recognised by the RIZIV or single-parent families with three or more children).

Which services can you benefit from and pay for using service vouchers?

Domestic:

Cleaning
Window cleaning
Laundry & ironing
Preparing meals
Occasional sewing work

Outside the home:

Delivery of shopping/errands
Day-to-day requirements
External ironing services
Occasional minor sewing work

Service vouchers MAY NOT be used:

For repair works (plumbing, electricity, etc.)
For maintaining the garden
For wallpapering or repainting a room
For taking care of children
For having hot meals delivered
For having deliveries of furniture, domestic appliances or audiovisual equipment, newspapers, etc.

Important: you may not benefit from service vouchers if you are a business.