Widely used by public and private companies, meal vouchers can become an excellent opportunity to accumulate valid transactions to climb the Super Cashback ranking, here’s how.
The first month of ordinary Cashback is now behind us and, apart from the delays in recording transactions within the IO app (which are then recovered periodically), there don’t seem to be many hiccups: users continue to make purchases with electronic payments to reach the 150 euro redemption threshold and to try to win the famous 1.500 euros of the Super Cashback.
The first in the ranking is now well above 700 transactions, which continues to fuel the controversy about the lack of control by the authorities, while the last in the ranking travels on 40 transactions and proves that you don’t need to turn your life upside down to try to win the final super bonus: just pay by card what you would normally buy every day in cash anyway. One such example is that of meal vouchers, a very popular tool in Italy among both public and private companies. Italian employers have been offering their employees meal vouchers for years, which, by law, are also cumulative and can be used for shopping. And, come to think of it, they can also be useful for Super Cashback.
Meal vouchers and cashback: no tricks
Italian legislation on meal vouchers provides that they are cumulative (up to 8 can be spent at the same time) and can be used to pay in bars, restaurants, canteens and even when shopping. This last case is very frequent: everyone has seen, at least once, a person pay at the supermarket checkout with meal vouchers.
The meal vouchers, however, are not divisible and so it often happens that the buyer pays the due largely with one or more meal vouchers and the rest with cash. But nothing forbids to pay the rest with a card: it will probably be a few euros, which will entitle you to a few cents of cashback, but the transaction will be to all intents and purposes valid and it will be one more transaction useful to climb the Super Cashback ranking.
Food vouchers and cashback: is it legal?
Paying with a card the missing amount of a purchase made with food stamps is absolutely legal. In fact, it is perhaps an example of the very sense of the Italia Cashless operation: meal vouchers are traceable, payment by card is traceable, the whole purchase prevents tax evasion.
As the new rules of the Lottery of receipts starting on February 1 show, in fact, the Italia Cashless plan has the very precise and now explicit aim of fighting tax evasion through the digitalization of payments. Passing the card to complete a payment made with food stamps, therefore, is perfectly consistent with this design.