Service voucher tax relief in 2026: who still qualifies?

No, except in Wallonia. A service voucher bought in 2026 only gives a right to a tax reduction if the buyer lives in the Walloon Region: €0.90 per voucher, on the first 150 vouchers bought in the tax year. In Brussels, the tax advantage is gone for every voucher bought since 1 January 2026. In Flanders, it has been gone since 1 January 2025.

Service vouchers are a regional matter: each region sets its own price, quotas and tax regime, with no coordination between the three. An amount you read on a Walloon website therefore never applies to a Brussels household, and the reverse is just as true. The full price list for the three regions, checked on 11 September 2026, is on our 2026 prices page.

Two regions out of three have closed the door within two years. For a reader living in Brussels, the question is no longer how much will come back next year, but what the final price of one hour is — and that final price is the amount paid when ordering from Pluxee.

The Walloon Region grants €0.90 of tax reduction per service voucher, on the first 150 vouchers bought during a tax year, which is a maximum advantage of €135 per person per year. The amount is fixed and independent of the face value of the voucher: it does not move when the Walloon voucher price rises, as it did on 1 July 2026.

The separate user number is the practical half of the Walloon rule, and it is the half people forget. Two spouses or cohabitants who order all their vouchers under a single user number share one ceiling of 150 vouchers. With two separate Pluxee user numbers, each of them gets their own reduction.

When the tax actually due is too low to absorb the reduction, it is converted fully or partly into a refundable tax credit. That word « partly » matters: a full refund is not guaranteed, it depends on each taxpayer's own situation.

One last point that is often misread: what counts is the vouchers bought, not the vouchers used. The Walloon service voucher portal puts it plainly — the tax deduction concerns vouchers that were bought, not vouchers that were used. A voucher paid for in December 2026 but handed to the home cleaner in 2027 therefore counts for the year of purchase. The number of vouchers already deductible is shown in the Pluxee secure account.

Brussels Economy and Employment announced the abolition together with the pay rise for home cleaners: tax deductibility is abolished for service vouchers bought from 1 January 2026, and the measure accompanies that pay rise. Both Brussels decisions were published together, alongside the voucher price increase of 1 January 2026.

For a Brussels household the consequence is immediate. A service voucher bought in 2026 costs €11.40 for the first 300 vouchers per person per calendar year, then €14.00 from the 301st to the 500th. For a whole household, the first tier covers 600 vouchers at €11.40 and the next 400 at €14.00. That price is the final cost: no tax reduction will be subtracted from it the following year.

What the price buys has not changed: one hour of work by a home cleaner on a salaried contract, declared, insured and supervised by an accredited company. Abolishing the tax advantage changes neither the cleaner's employment contract nor the rules on using the vouchers.

Yes. The deduction still applies in full to every Brussels service voucher bought before 1 January 2026. For those 2025 purchases, the reduction is 15 % per voucher, capped at 172 vouchers per person per tax year.

This is a transitional regime, not a right that carries on: it covers only vouchers already paid for in 2025. Purchases made from 1 January 2026 give no right at all in the Brussels Region, whatever date those vouchers are later used on. The purchase date governs, not the date of the cleaning visit.

The matching tax certificate was sent by Pluxee in March 2026, for vouchers bought in 2025, and it can also be downloaded from the Pluxee secure account. That certificate is what you use to check the tax return covering 2025 income.

Since 1 January 2025, with no transitional year whatsoever. The official Dienstencheques Vlaanderen portal is explicit: dienstencheques have given no right to a tax advantage since 1 January 2025, and no tax certificate is issued at all from 2026 onwards. Vouchers bought in 2025 and the following years therefore give nothing.

The Flemish legal basis is published and verifiable: the Programmadecreet bij de begroting 2025 of 20 December 2024 repeals, in its articles 50 to 53, articles 145/21 to 145/23 of the 1992 Income Tax Code, which governed the tax reduction for wijk-werken and dienstencheques. Article 79, 5° of the same decree sets its application to tax periods beginning after 31 December 2024.

That is the difference between the two regions that dropped the advantage: Flanders left no transitional regime at all, whereas Brussels vouchers bought in 2025 do remain deductible. On price, a dienstencheque costs €10.00 for the first 400 vouchers per person per calendar year, then €11.00 from the 401st to the 500th — and for a household, €10.00 for the first 800 and €11.00 for the next 200.

What decides is your address on 1 January of the year following the purchase. The Walloon service voucher portal words the rule this way: the amount of the reduction depends on the place of your main residence, as recorded in the Population Register, on 1 January of the year following the purchase.

In practice, for service vouchers bought in 2026, the situation on 1 January 2027 is what counts, not the situation on the day of purchase. A household that leaves Wallonia for Brussels in November 2026 and is registered there on 1 January 2027 gets no Walloon reduction on its 2026 purchases. Moving the other way produces the opposite result.

Do not confuse this tax rule with the accreditation rule, which is a separate matter: the company doing the work must be accredited in the region where you live. Milhomem Group works in Brussels, Walloon Brabant and Flemish Brabant; the municipality-by-municipality detail is on our service areas page.

It depends on your region. In Wallonia, yes: on 1 March every year Pluxee sends a tax certificate, which can also be downloaded from the secure account, and the amounts are filled in automatically on the TAX ON WEB return.

In Brussels, the certificate sent in March 2026 covered vouchers bought in 2025. Since purchases made from 1 January 2026 give no right at all, there is no longer a Brussels amount to declare for them. In Flanders, no tax certificate is issued from 2026 onwards.

One piece of advice that applies to Wallonia: check the pre-filled amount before confirming your return. The number of service vouchers already deductible appears in the Pluxee secure account, and that counter tells you whether the ceiling of 150 vouchers has been reached. For how the system works in general — registration, ordering, validating each visit — our page on how service vouchers work covers the whole process.

One service voucher pays for one hour of work. The real cost of that hour, tax relief included, is therefore €11.40 in Brussels, €10.00 in Flanders and €9.70 in Wallonia — the last figure applying only to the first 150 vouchers of the year.

A Brussels example, since most of our clients live there: three hours of cleaning a week comes to roughly 13 service vouchers a month, so €148.20 at the Brussels rate of €11.40 per voucher, with nothing to recover the year after. The budget announced is the budget paid, which makes the arithmetic simpler than it was before 2026.

A free quote gives you the exact number of vouchers for the duration and frequency you choose, before you order anything from Pluxee.