Escrivá confirms that the new self-employed contribution regime will go to the Council of Ministers on July 26

MADRID, 20 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, confirmed this Wednesday that the Royal Decree-Law establishing a new contribution system for the self-employed will go to the Council of Ministers next Tuesday, July 26.

Social Security has closed the agreement this morning, after the approval of the Association of Self-Employed Workers (ATA), the last one that remained to be pronounced, after the Union of Professionals and Self-Employed Workers (UPTA) and the Union of Associations of Self-Employed Workers and Entrepreneurs (Uatae).

However, the text is still awaiting the formal decision of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE), which for reasons of deadlines has not been able to deal with it in its executive committee on Wednesday and will do so tomorrow.

"Indeed, we already have the agreement with the three self-employed associations, but the final decision by the CEOE is pending and has been postponed until tomorrow due to an item on the agenda," said Escrivá, asked about it at the press conference. of presentation of the advance of affiliation of July.

The minister has also specified that it will be approved in the Council of Ministers as a Royal Decree-law, an idea of ​​the Ministry to see "the rates of progress in the negotiation", and will subsequently be processed as law.

"My impression is that this is an agreement that is going to receive broad support. It is supported by all the social and self-employed agents. It is a decades-long aspiration of the self-employed," said Escrivá.

The minister will appear this Thursday, at 12 noon, at the extraordinary session of the Commission for monitoring and evaluation of the agreements of the Toledo Pact to explain the agreement.

Social Security and the self-employed have managed to agree on a quota evolution calendar for 2023, 2024 and 2025, the date on which it will be reviewed again for the next three years, until reaching 2032, as stated in the additional provisions of the text.

"The introduction of a new regime, as has been done in the past, requires a very gradual process to allow the self-employed and the Administration itself to adapt," Escrivá explained in relation to those nine-year term.

The new contribution regime for the self-employed will also allow self-employed workers to change sections, from among the 15 existing in the future model, every two months. It also contemplates the flexibility of the contribution "from a certain age".

"This is very important, to provide flexibility so that throughout their working life they can adapt their level of contributions and adapt it to their income", he added. Thus, according to Social Security estimates, one in two self-employed workers will have the possibility of contributing with a lower quota.

For the Minister of Social Security, the new contribution system "reinforces the protective action of Social Security on the self-employed", since it will allow self-employed workers to receive a "benefit analogous" to that of employees during layoffs of activity.

Although Escrivá has preferred to wait for his appearance before the Toledo Pact to detail the agreement, he has advanced as a "novelty" that the self-employed will be able to deduct an additional 7% on expenses that are difficult to classify. These will be 3% for self-employed companies.

"The definition of net returns has been much discussed and fine-tuned. I think it has turned out very well, with general satisfaction. They are net returns, sometimes it is thought that we are talking about income," Escrivá clarified.