The Government improves its contribution proposal for the self-employed with average income

MADRID, 13 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration has improved its contribution proposal for those self-employed with average net income, who earn between 1,700 and 2,300 euros per month, approximately, as reported on Monday by the president of the Professional Union of Self-Employed Workers (UPTA). ), Eduardo Abad, after a new social dialogue meeting to negotiate the reform of the Special Regime for Self-Employed Workers (RETA).

Abad has stated that there has been "an approach by the Ministry" by offering a "significant drop in the monthly contribution" for average incomes, for which he considers that the conditions are met to "reach an agreement of all parties" .

Specifically, the Executive proposes that the self-employed with net income of between 1,700 and 1,850 euros per month pay a fee of 370 euros per month, 30 euros less than what it proposed in its previous proposal for the income bracket of 1,700 to 1,900 euros.

In the last section proposal made by the Government, on May 27, it proposed a quota of 440 euros for the section between 1,900 and 2,330 euros. Now divide this section in two: with income from 1,850 to 2,030 euros, a fee of 400 euros is proposed, and with income from 2,030 to 2,330 euros, the fee would be 440 euros.

The first six tranches remain unchanged, corresponding to net returns of between 670 and 1,700 euros per month, in which the self-employed would pay Social Security between 250 and 294 euros monthly, which would mean reductions of between 52 and 65 euros compared to what they pay now on average monthly.

In the remaining sections, which range from 1,701 to 4,050 euros per month of net income or more, the self-employed would have to pay Social Security a fee of between 370 and 550 euros per month.

After the meeting on Monday, the president of UPTA has warned the self-employed associations with opposing positions that his organization is going to be "absolutely belligerent" so as not to return to the starting box in the negotiations.

"I think that it is time to make decisions and if this system has to be born with the agreement of 100% of the parties involved, it would be ideal. If not, the Government has to make decisions now that can change the lives of 3,4 millions of self-employed workers," Abad said.

Abad has also reported that there will be another meeting at the end of the week to "be able to definitively close the text that the Ministry will give as definitive." For now, he has sent them a draft.

For its part, for the Union of Associations of Autonomous Workers and Entrepreneurs (Uatae), the Ministry must be even "more ambitious in reducing quotas for groups with less income", as sources from this organization have pointed out to Europa Press.

Uatae also values ​​the proposals to improve the benefit for cessation of activity, unveiled at the previous meeting, and believes that the Social Security proposals "have good intentions but they must be improved."

In ATA, on the other hand, they maintain their rejection of the Government's proposal, considering that it is "unaffordable". "A self-employed person who earns 1,700 euros a month is going to have to pay 900 euros more in contributions per year, 26% more, this is unaffordable," questioned the president of ATA, Lorenzo Amor, who recalled that this must be done. add the price of electricity, energy or labor costs.

Amor has pointed out that, in this situation, the self-employed are "so that the governments take costs away from them, not so that they add them", and added that this group is not "so that they trip them up" with these new sections. “We are not going to validate that a self-employed person who earns 1,700 euros will have 900 euros taken away next year from the money that goes to his house,” he warned.

The president of ATA has announced that on Friday they will transfer their proposals and allegations to the Ministry, since they had not yet had time to study the document that Escrivá's portfolio sent them on Saturday mid-morning.

Precisely the details of that document are those that the Ministry has explained this Monday to the social agents and the self-employed associations, according to sources from the portfolio directed by José Luis Escrivá.

Specifically, the technicians and the social partners have addressed the new section proposal presented by the Ministry, with modifications in three of them. Social Security plans to convene the rest of the table "in the next few days", although they still do not have a closed date.