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Ticket Vacanţa

Ticket Vacanţa is the holiday voucher issued by Edenred.

Ticket Vacanţa is the most efficient solution to increase employees' productivity and motivation. Vacation vouchers are an alternative for holiday bonuses, being deductible and exempted from taxes and duties on the employer.

Why Does Ticket Vacanţa Help You?
First of all, it helps with the company's finances.
Vacation vouchers are deductible and exempted from taxes and duties employer, within the limit of 6 gross minimum salaries per economy. The maximum amount that can be granted (deductible and exempted from taxes and duties) is currently lei 4 020. In addition, vouchers may be used in all the affiliated units on Romania's territory.

Starting with the rights of July, vacation vouchers will be taxed by the quota of 16% corresponding to the tax on salary income, which is payable by employees.

Government Emergency Ordinance No. 58 expressly provides under Article IV, items a) and b) the maintenance of all the other fiscal advantages related to vacation vouchers stipulated by the Government Emergency Ordinance No. 8/2009 regarding the grant of vacation vouchers.

Vacation vouchers continue to bring fiscal benefits to your company, as they are deductible upon calculation of the tax on profit (16%) and exempted from the payment of social and salary-related contributions (16.5%) and of social and employer-related contributions (minimum 28%).

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Secondly, it helps fidelizing employees. If you offer your employees these "value coupons" for them to use upon payment of tourism services (in hotels boarding houses, balneary treatment units or at tourism operators), they will automatically appreciate their workplace at a much higher rate. Any vacation means expenses; by means of Ticket Vacanţa, you show them that you care for them. Keep in mind that your employees represent your company's most important advertising source and resource.

Under Which Circumstances Can You Grant Vacation Vouchers?
The only condition on companies is to have registered a profit or income, as applicable, in their previous financial year. As for the rest, the business sector or share capital formation are of no importance for offering vacation vouchers to employees.

What Does the Law Stipulate about Vacation Vouchers?
Vacation vouchers are granted in accordance with the provisions of Emergency Government No. 8/2009 published in Monitorul Oficial No. 110/24.02.2009 and with the methodological rules regarding the grant vacation vouchers.

"To recover and maintain their staff's working capacity, employers hiring personnel under an individual labor contract may grant, according to the law, value coupons, hereinafter referred to as vacation vouchers" as provided by EGO No. 8 of February 18, 2009 regarding the grant vacation vouchers.
Vacation vouchers are a viable alternative to those vacation bonuses that you are granting to your employees. As an employer, you will entirely bear the costs related to such vouchers. The advantage is that vacation vouchers are by up to 50% more cost-effective than vacation vouchers.
Vacation vouchers granted to employees hired under individual labor contracts are deductible and exempted from taxes and duties both on the employer and on the employee, within the limit of six gross minimum salaries whose payment is guaranteed, for an employee during a financial year, according to Ordinance No. 8/2009.

If you represent a company, find out more about the advantages of Ticket Vacanţa by accessing the access the section dedicated to companies.

If you represent an affiliated partner, access the section dedicated to affiliated partners.

If you are a beneficiary of lunch vouchers Ticket Vacanţa, access the section dedicated to beneficiaries.