Last year, that meant the Belgian taxman paid out 43 million euros to those who bill for cycling to work.
“Higher oil prices and environmental awareness contribute to having more cyclists on the road,” said Dieter Snauwaert, coordinator of the biketowork scheme of the Flemish Cyclists' Union in Belgium.
One of the most successful corporate proponents has been Belgian discount supermarket chain Colruyt, which launched the policy four years ago and now has 2,100 participants.
Colruyt provides employees who live up to 7 km away from work with a bicycle and takes care of maintenance.
Company spokesman Victor De Meester said that apart from employees being healthier there were also other advantages.
“The more people cycle to work the fewer parking spaces you have to offer. It's not so easy, especially in urban areas, to expand parking spaces,” he said.
Colruyt, which has more than 22,000 employees, is now looking to target those who live further away than 7 km (4.4 miles) by offering electric bicycles to make it easier to negotiate larger distances.
“Our target is 400 participants by 2015 but given the response we have had so far this may be too low a number,” De Meester said.
Colruyt's belief that employees who cycle to work are healthier than their colleagues who don't is backed up by research from Dutch organization TNO.
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