Business travel within Belgium: new indexed amounts for lump-sum cost reimbursements
If certain conditions are met, employers are allowed to make lump-sum payments, which are tax-free in the hands of the employees, in order to reimburse these employees for expenses incurred due to business travel within Belgium. As of 1 October 2018 a tax-free meal allowance of EUR 17.06 (instead of EUR 16.73 per day) is
Costs proper to the employer – Belgian business trips
Costs incurred by an employee during a Belgian business trip can be reimbursed free of income tax by their employer on a lump sum basis, provided the amount reimbursed is in line with the expense rates applied by the government for its own state personnel. In a recently published Q&A, the Minister of Finance confirmed
