Escrivá's proposal to reform contributions alarms the self-employed

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The plans of the Ministry of Social Security to reform the contribution scheme for self-employed workers.

The main associations that represent this group call on the Government to postpone the initiative so as not to apply it in the midst of the crisis because it is "

" and, in any case, to avoid a unilateral application through negotiations.

The reform promoted by Minister

is based on changing the current system of contribution by modules of self-employed workers to another or based on the real income of the affiliates.

Escrivá announced this initiative in the Toledo Pact, conditioning it to the fact that if the commission that studies the pension reform maintained the recommendation, the contribution by real income of the self-employed would be addressed.

He added that, if

The Toledo Pact has not yet set a date to specify its recommendations to the Government and from the ministry they indicate that, for the moment, they are talking at a technical level with the associations of the self-employed in order to be able to make an initial approach to the associations for start talking with them.

There are still no calculations or a concrete proposal from the Government.

The possibility of having a new real income contribution system is well received by the more than three million self-employed workers represented by the

associations

although there are very marked nuances.

ATA, the largest association with more than 50% of affiliates, considers that the pandemic crisis forces to postpone the reform since it will affect 90% of the one million self-employed for whom income can be determined.

They would pay, he says, based on 2019 records, when 2020 has seen a general collapse of the income of these self-employed workers.

More than 80% have seen their billing fall by 60%, according to ATA.

"We distrust that in practice this system is feasible or opportune at the present time, or that despite seeking equity it does not produce greater inequality and precariousness in the self-employed", affirms the president of this association,

For his part, the president of UPTA,

asks the Executive "not to give this reform to self-employed workers and to negotiate it with the organizations of the self-employed, reports Europa Press.

In Abad's opinion, the current contribution system, in force for 50 years, is "absolutely unfair", since the less well-off self-employed are harmed by having to make a contributory effort "far above their

possibilities. "On the other hand, he argues, practically 700,000 freelancers are benefiting, since although they could quote above the minimum base, they are not doing so," he says.

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