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.

In Wallonia (as a household):

10.20 EUR for the first 350 service cheques acquired per calendar year;
11.20 EUR for 351 to 800 service cheques acquired per calendar year,
12.20 EUR for 901 to 1000 service cheques purchased per calendar year.

The tax deduction remains at 10% on the first 150 service cheques purchased per person, per tax year.

In Flanders (as a household)

10 EUR for the first 800 service cheques
11 EUR for 801 to 1000 service cheques

Tax deduction1.80 EUR per service voucher on the first 198 service vouchers.

In Brussels (as a household):

10.20 EUR or the first 600 service cheques
12.40 EUR for the next 400.

Tax reduction - 15% on first 172 service cheques.

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.