How the new corporate welfare incentive works
Fuel bonus for employees
With the 2022 Fuel Bonus, companies can provide €200 in tax-free fuel vouchers to their employees. Find out what the fuel bonus is and how you can benefit from the tax advantages.
What is the fuel bonus?
By fuel bonus we mean a benefit introduced by the Decree on energy prices to counteract the economic consequences of rising fuel prices.
Article 2 of Decree 21, published in the Gazzetta on 21 of March, allows private companies to offer tax-free fuel vouchers to each employee.
The total value of the vouchers that can be paid with the fuel bonus is €200 and is valid until 31 December 2022. This amount is added to the value of the existing tax-free fringe benefits of €258.23, making a total of €458.23.
How the petrol bonus works and how to get it
No application is required to receive the bonus, which is paid once and has a maximum value of €200.
This form of corporate welfare is not imposed by the government: the fuel vouchers included in the bonus are offered directly to employees by private companies on a voluntary basis. It is therefore up to the company to decide whether to offer the fuel bonus, and the employer has the right to grant the benefit to all employees, in homogeneous groups or to individual employees.
The only condition for receiving the fuel bonus is to be an employee of a private company. This excludes public sector employees, employees registered for VAT and the self-employed.
Advantages and tax relief
The fuel bonus is an advantageous benefit:
for companies
• Private companies enjoy tax exemption on the purchase .
• They are a tangible way of supporting and rewarding employees.
for employees
• It does not contribute to income and is therefore tax-free.
• It does not require the submission of forms, making it easily accessible.
• There are no ISEE requirements or income ceilings that limit its use.
Fuel bonus with Q8
With Q8, companies can take advantage of the fuel bonus by purchasing Q8 Ticketfuel, Q8's digital fuel vouchers.
Q8 Ticketfuels, which can be requested by any company in complete autonomy, is a flexible and secure payment solution. Specifically designed to be integrated into company benefit plans, employee fuel vouchers are available in customisable denominations from a minimum of €5 to a maximum of €520 and are easily managed via the RecardWeb portal.
Where to spend the vouchers and how to use them
Spending fuel vouchers is very simple: you present them at the point of sale and the value of the voucher is deducted from the amount to be paid.
With Q8 Ticketfuel, you can take advantage of the large, widespread network of Q8 petrol stations throughout the country. Thanks to the digital vouchers, it is possible to fill up in the most convenient way at any of the 3,000 Q8 and Q8easy petrol stations in Italy and to spend the vouchers digitally, in the presence of the manager or at the filling station, by entering the 12 digits that make up the voucher or by scanning the barcode on the corresponding readers.