The meeting held this afternoon by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration with social agents Y self-employed associations to address the new contribution system for self-employed workers has ended without significant progress, have indicated ATA, UPTA and UGT.
The Government presented last week a proposal to reform the contribution system and summoned social agents and self-employed associations to propose their own initiatives in this regard at the meeting this Monday, in which no progress has been made in the negotiation.
“We don’t like this proposal”, underlined the president of ATA, Lorenzo Amor, in an audio sent to the media, where he has considered the Government’s initiative “unaffordable”, which also sees “technical problems” in matters such as self-employed collaborators or multi-activity.
The president of the Union of Professionals and Autonomous Workers (UPTA), Eduardo Abad, has lamented that his organization has been the only one that has brought a proposal to the table. “You have to go to meetings with your homework done, it’s no use denying the eldest”, he criticized.
The UPTA proposal to reduce the contribution brackets to 11 and raise the fee to be paid at the end of the period for the self-employed with monthly returns of less than 600 euros, up to 208 euros, as well as establishing special contributions for artists and those who earn less than 5,400 euros a year.
The Executive’s proposal to reform the contribution regime for the self-employed (RETA) consists of a scheme to apply over the next nine years (2023-2031), which would have thirteen income contribution brackets with their respective installments. Social Security.
These installments would range at the end of the transitional period, in 2031, between 183 euros per month for those with monthly returns of less than 600 euros and 1,266 euros for those that exceed 4,050 euros.
This Monday, the Minister of Inclusion, José Luis Escrivá, has been open to making adjustments to his proposal, despite the fact that he considers it “very fair” and “beneficial”. The negotiation will continue with a new meeting on Monday of next week.