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Official benefit-in-kind values for meals and accommodation

Full board counts as EUR 345 a month (breakfast 71, lunch and dinner 137 each) and accommodation as EUR 285 — less 15 % for shared housing or living in the employer's household, 15 % for minors and trainees, and 40 to 60 % where several employees share. Whatever the employee pays is deducted.

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  • Meals for the employee only; the increases for family members (s. 2(2) SvEV) are not calculated.
  • Accommodation, not a self-contained flat: a flat is valued at the local market rent (s. 2(4) SvEV).
  • Where all three meals are provided for part of a month, one thirtieth of the EUR 345 total is used, not the sum of the rounded individual values.

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