4 good reasons to opt for a meal card
18 de October, 2018
The reasons for paying meal allowances by card are numerous and benefit both organizations and employees.
Find out about four of these reasons and learn in detail about the benefits that justify paying your meal allowance via a meal card.
- Reduced tax and social charges. The meal card is a quick and simple solution that allows companies and their employees to pay the meal allowance, benefiting from exemption from the Single Social Tax (TSU) and Personal Income Tax (IRS) – the latter only applied to employees.
- Greater purchasing power and more savings. By benefiting from total exemption from TSU and IRS, through the payment of the meal allowance by card, employees achieve a significant and real increase in their purchasing power.
- Greater flexibility. The meal card currently offers a range of free complementary services, which give those responsible for managing the card total autonomy and control over topping up and ordering new cards.
- More and new services. In Portugal, meal cards come with a range of additional services, such as: geolocation platforms and exclusive promotions mobile applications which, among other features, allow you to check your movements and balance in real time.