Relaxation allowance for the whole family
Promote relaxation and work-life balance for your employees with a tax-optimised benefit of €156 per year, with additional allowances for spouses, partners and children.
A small gesture with a big impact
Relaxed employees are healthier, happier and ultimately more productive. Reward good work once a year in the form of a relaxation allowance.
Promote balance
Show your appreciation by subsidising your employees' time off and thus promoting their well-being.
Employer Branding
Increase your attractiveness in the battle for top talent and differentiate yourself from your competitors.
No effort
Once a year, the holiday is submitted digitally in the app and automatically reimbursed.
To the subsidy in two steps
All you have to do is enter the period of your holiday in our app and specify other family members. The rest takes care of itself.
Everyone can benefit
It is a benefit that extends beyond the individual employee. Spouses, partners and children also receive annual bonuses.
Go on holiday and save taxes
More net on holiday
Your employees benefit from the tax-free salary extra on their dream holiday with at least €156 more net in their luggage.
Tax-optimised
Employers save compared to traditional salary increases through flat-rate tax (25 %) and social security exemption.
Easy to roll out
Implementation in just a few hours, support during rollout with contract templates, training courses and manuals.
Try it out yourself
A relaxation allowance in just a few steps. In our interactive product demo, we show you how easy this benefit is in practice.
No effort for HR
You don't have to be a tax expert to roll out a benefits programme that reaches the people in your company. You just need to know what's important to them. We'll do the rest.
1. Admins invite employees to Circula.
2. Employees submit at least 7 days of leave & add other family members.
3. Circula creates monthly reports that admins can transfer to the payroll accounting.
4. One-off payment with the next salary
Over 1,700 satisfied customers already benefit from our solution.
Compliance doesn't have to be complicated.
Not even in HR. We will show you how easy it is to roll out your individual benefits programme.
Do you have any questions?
- 156€ for every employee
- 104€ addition for spouses
- 52€ additional for every child
Example: Mr. Zukowski is married and has three children. He goes on vacation with his family for two weeks. A week after his return, he claims his Relax Benefit via the Circula app. In the following month, Mr. Zukowski receives a one-time reimbursement of €416 from his employer.
In general, any form of recreational activity can be subsidized with the help of the Relax Benefit. However, the prerequisite is that a "vacation" has been taken for at least 7 consecutive working days.
The total allowance amount can be used only once in a calendar year. The amount cannot be split in instalments over the year.
No, holiday allowance and Relax Benefit are not the same and may be paid in parallel. They are not mutually exclusive and are both voluntary measures taken by the employer.
Paragraph 40 of the Income Tax Act (EStG) on the lump sum wage tax in special cases regulates the relax allowance. Under paragraph 2, sentence 1, number 3 of the EStG, it is stated that the employer may levy wage tax at a flat rate of 25%, insofar as he grants relax allowances, if these, together with relax allowances granted earlier in the same calendar year, do not exceed €156.00 for the employee.
In addition to the allowance of €156.00, employers are entitled to an additional €104.00 Euros per year for spouses of the employee and an additional €52.00 per year for each child as a Relax Benefit.