One of the proposals to negotiate the investiture is that self-employed workers pay their Social Security contributions based on their income. A measure that may seem logical, but according to the president of ATA, Lorenzo Amor, would mean “a significant rise in prices” for 80% of the self-employed.
Specifically, Amor has indicated that there are more than 2.5 million workers who would be affected by Pedro Sánchez’s proposal. If applied, he warns, it will only mean a reduction in contributions for some 600,000 workers, which represent 20% of the group.
“I can think that it is fair, that the self-employed quote in line with the income they receive, but what I want is for people to be told the truth and this cannot be sold as a reduction in contributions. It is false, it is lie, because it will imply raising the contributions to 80% of the self-employed”, accused the president of ATA, who wants “false expectations not to be sold”.
Amor explained that 80% of the self-employed with a net income of 1,500 euros are currently listing 267 euros and, if the measure proposed by the PSOE is applied, “they would have to list 440 euros.” “If they wanted to reduce the quota, they would have to lose rights,” he said. If the measure were applied, in order to have a lower quota, these self-employed workers would have to “lose what they pay that gives them the right to a pension or what they pay for the right to illness, disability…”.
Main problems
The president of ATA stressed that, above the contributions, the problems of the self-employed are personal income tax or VAT, which “but also to hairdressers, to those in gyms…”.
In addition, it stands out that another problem for the self-employed is the delinquency of the public administrations, which have to pay in 30 days and do so on average in 86; and large companies, which have to do it in 60 days and do it on average in 130.
“The problems of the self-employed are also the infinity of obstacles to starting a business or activity, or having to pay the monthly contribution instead of quarterly, or having to file with the Treasury every quarter instead of every six months…”, stressed the president of ATA.
Another big problem pointed out by Amor is that a self-employed person registers this Tuesday, February 9 and also has to pay for the previous eight days in which they have not worked, or that today they unsubscribe and have to pay the contribution for the remaining 20 days of the month.
“I do not stop recognizing that there is a part of the self-employed who goes with the noose around their necks to be able to pay their social contributions, but that is not the problem of the majority,” he pointed out, while highlighting measures such as the flat rate of 50 euros of contribution for new autonomous launched by the Executive of the PP, which “has facilitated that almost 750,000 autonomous can take advantage of it”.
contrary opinion
On the contrary, the president of the Federation of Organizations of Professionals, Self-Employed and Entrepreneurs (OPA), Camilo Abiétar, considers it “positive” and, “as long as it does not have small print that harms the self-employed.” According to Abietar, it is one of the “historic demands” of the employers and “it would be more in line with the reality of the moment.”
According to the president of OPA, the contributions of the self-employed have to be adapted to what they receive, since “a self-employed person who has a high income is not the same as another who has little income and who has more difficulties when it comes to being able to fulfill their obligations.”
In his opinion, a flexibility in the bases could make the self-employed adapt their contributions to the moment they are going through and “could help them get out of the hole they are in” as a result of the lack of financing, public and private delinquencies, the submerged economy and “high” tax burdens.
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