Lorenzo Amor (ATA) criticizes the Government's new proposal on the self-employed quota as "unacceptable"

The president of ATA believes that the Government lives "far from economic reality"

MADRID, 31 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of the National Federation of Associations of Autonomous Workers (ATA), Lorenzo Amor, has described as "unacceptable" the new proposal made by the Government regarding the quota for the self-employed.

Through two tweets on his official Twitter account, Amor has considered that the Government lives "in another world" and far from the economic reality that "scourges" Spain.

Specifically, the president of the employer's association has lamented that the contributions of the self-employed who earn more than 1,700 euros per month are increased between "1,272 and 3,072 euros more per year". "Pretending that with the one that is falling and the one that is about to fall, the self-employed pay more is to live in another world," he has written on his Twitter account.

On the proposal for the lower brackets, Amor has recognized that it is positive that the quota drops between 250 and 294 euros per year for 1.2 million self-employed, but has shown that this reduction also implies 15% less benefits and pensions .

"What they don't tell you is that these self-employed workers would have fewer benefits and pensions by lowering their contribution base from 960 to 817 euros," said the president of ATA.

Lorenzo Amor's reactions come after the proposal raised on Monday by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration in which reference is made to the contribution for real income of the self-employed.

The Ministry proposes quotas of between 250 and 550 euros per month for the period 2023-2025. Specifically, it proposes that in the first six sections, corresponding to net returns of between 670 and 1,700 euros per month, the self-employed pay Social Security between 250 and 294 euros monthly, which would mean reductions of between 52 and 65 euros compared to to what they pay now on average monthly.

On the other hand, in the remaining seven sections, which range from 1,701 to 4,050 euros per month of net income, the self-employed would have to pay Social Security a fee of between 400 and 550 euros per month, which means between 35 and 107 euros more per month compared to the current average.