How the mobility budget works

Your employer decides:

✅ How much budget is available to you each month

✅ Whether only tax-free mobility or also flexible mobility is subsidized

✅ Which categories are approved for you

You can find this information directly in your Probonio app.

🚆 Tax-free mobility categories

These categories are always tax-free, regardless of whether you use them privately or for your commute.

🚆 Local public transport

Here you can submit all tickets for local public transport in Germany:

✔ Single tickets & day tickets

✔ Weekly tickets (unless you have a travelcard)

✔ Trips with:

• Buses
• Streetcars & streetcars
• Subway & suburban trains
• Regional trains (RB, RE)
• Private trains (e.g. Metronom, Meridian, Bayerische Regiobahn)

🎫 Season ticket

All multiple weekly, monthly or annual tickets for public transport belong here:

✔ Monthly passes & annual season tickets

✔ Job tickets & company tickets

🔹 Important: If a season ticket is purchased for several months, the refund will be made pro rata per month.

🇩🇪 Germany ticket

✔ The Deutschlandticket (currently €63) can also be submitted.

✔ Reimbursable receipts:

• Invoice from the provider (e.g., Deutsche Bahn, transport companies)
  Tip: if this is not sent automatically, it may be available in the customer login area or can be requested!
• Screenshot of the mobile ticket showing the current monthly validity
• Monthly confirmation of validity by the issuing company

🚄 Long-distance train (tax-free for travel to work, taxable for private travel)

Here you can submit tickets for long-distance trains.

✔ Reimbursable journeys:

• ICE, IC, EC, ECE, TGV
• Flex fare & saver fare tickets from Deutsche Bahn

💡 Tax regulation:

✅ Tax-free if the journey is between home and work.

❌ Taxable if it is a private journey.

🚌 Long-distance bus (tax-free for journeys to work, taxable for private journeys)

You can submit long-distance bus tickets here.

✔ Reimbursable providers:

• FlixBus
• BlaBlaBus
• other long-distance buses

💡 Tax regulation:

✅ Tax-free if the journey is between home and work.

❌ Taxable if it is a private journey.

🚗 Taxable mobility categories (flexible mobility)

These categories are always taxable and fall under flexible mobility.

🚗 Car

You can submit current car expenses here.

✔ Reimbursable receipts:

• Refueling & charging (petrol, diesel, electricity for e-cars)
• Parking fees (parking garages, public parking lots)
• Tolls (highways, bridges, tunnels)

🚲🚗 Sharing offers

Here you can submit all sharing services.

✔ Reimbursable receipts:

• Car sharing (e.g. Share Now, Miles, Sixt Share)
• Bike sharing (e.g. nextbike, Call a Bike)
• E-scooter (e.g. Tier, Voi, Lime)

🚕 Taxi

You can submit cab and ride-sharing trips here.

✔ Reimbursable receipts:

• Cabs
• Uber, Bolt, Lyft

🔄 Other

Here you can submit all other mobility expenses that do not fit into one of the other categories.

✔ Possible receipts:

• Repair costs for your private vehicle
• Flights & other means of transportation

📌 Important notes on submission

• The categories you can use depend on your employer's specifications.
• Always upload your receipts in the correct category to ensure correct reimbursement.
• Make sure that the receipt is easy to read and contains all relevant data.
• Check your Probonio app to see which options are available to you.

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