The time is coming for those who have not yet used their health care allowance via the employer to do so. As a rule, you have until December 31, but it can differ depending on where you work.
A recurring question for many is usually what the health care allowance can be spent on and what you cannot expect to receive compensation for.
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What can the health care grant be used for?
Swedish Radio have spoken to a plumbing employee in Kalmar who has SEK 3,000 per year to spend on health care. He puts it on lift tickets, which the Swedish Tax Agency approves.
– That’s enough for me. That’s enough for one lift pass a year, he says.
However, clothes or gift cards are not accepted. The tax lawyer reports to the radio channel Pia Blank Thörnroos how to think.
– It should be an activity, not a pre-purchase of anything. It should be about an activity that you actually do, she tells SR and elaborates further:
– We are talking about wellness activities that are clear and that are carried out. The employer must know when they pay out the money what you actually bought something for.
The Swedish Tax Agency therefore does not approve anything regarding the deductions you can make on your health care allowance.
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The Swedish Tax Agency: Then you may not use the wellness allowance
The Swedish Tax Agency clarifies on its homepage that employee care benefits, such as health care allowances, are benefits of lesser value but which have the purpose of creating well-being at work and contributing to the employee’s well-being.
The Swedish Tax Agency writes, among other things, that you may not use the grant to pay for a driver’s license, membership fees or carry out cosmetic procedures.
Then the Health Care Allowance may not be used:
- If you intend to pay membership fees in associations or associations, licences, driving licences, diplomas or the like.
- If you intend to buy or rent equipment such as skis or vehicles.
- If you intend to carry out treatments that are health care, medical care or beauty care. Beauty care means treatments with a mainly cosmetic purpose.
To be able to use the wellness allowance, the activity must be:
- Of lesser value.
- Target the entire staff.
- Not exchangeable for cash.
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The Swedish Tax Agency: The rules for your healthcare allowance
The maximum allowed contribution is SEK 5,000 per year. It must therefore have elements of exercise or other health-promoting wellness care. Because of that, for example, a gym card is approved, so are riding lessons.
But the authority also explains which rules must be followed. It is, for example, up to the employer whether wellness benefits should even be offered at the workplace.
But what are the concrete rules?
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Source: nyheter24.se
