The more than three million self-employed workers who are registered in Spain will have a new contribution system agreed with the Social Security.

José Luis Escrivá

, Minister of Social Security met yesterday with the main associations representing this group to advance on a formula that is yet to be defined but that aims for the majority of the self-employed to quote based on their real income.

ATA, the largest of the associations, has already announced that it does not support the

Social Security

proposal

because it considers it unfair.

The reform of the Special Regime for Self-Employed Workers (RETA) is part of the agreements

of the Toledo Pact

on the reform of pensions that has not yet been formalized but that Escrivá is already working on in advance.

The date for the entry into force of the changes in the RETA is part of the negotiations, which yesterday focused on general aspects such as the impact it will have on the different categories that exist in the group.

The current RETA works with monthly contributions and a general rate of 30.3% according to different bases.

It

s self -

employed persons

listed by the corporate income tax, about one million, are excluded

from the new system of direct estimation of the autonomous choose their contribution base according to the forecast yields will.

According to Social Security, the system will adjust the excess or defect of contributions the following year.

Issues such as the contribution tranches that the new system will offer and which will also be negotiated remain to be defined, but the impact on the self-employed is considered in very different ways by the Government and the associations.

Thus, according to Social Security of the 2.2 million self-employed persons registered with income from economic activities (RAE),

"more than half had income lower than the minimum interprofessional wage (SMI), so their contribution to the Security Social would be lower than the current one with the new system. "

Ministry sources explained that of the remaining million affiliates, there will be those who contribute the same, without indicating an approximation of the number of workers who will have to pay more.

On the side of the self-employed,

Lorenzo Amor

, president of ATA, the main association, explained that the new table of contributions by real income will affect 1.5 million affiliates as they are excluded, in addition to those listed by companies, the collaborating freelancers and freelancers who contribute by modules, who do not make estimates of income.

"Of those 1.5 million, 700,000 declare returns above 25,000 euros

and it is these that will pay the most when the new system comes into operation."

According to the president of ATA, the system will produce the effect that some of these self-employed workers end up paying more in contributions than others who earn more money but are listed by companies.

The estimates with which Social Security works are from 2016, 2017 and 2018.

"It is not fair and we will not support it," he

advanced yesterday after the meeting.

Without specifying which formula will be optimal,

the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF)

considers that it is vital "to go to a contribution system according to real income" for the self-employed, that is, that it defends and supports the plan of the Minister of Social Security and former president of the organization, José Luis Escrivá.

"We say it clearly," AIReF sources point out, adding that in that case "a flat rate system would not be necessary, or it could be redesigned, since prices would be low in the first years."

This endorsement from AIReF is included in the analysis of the incentives for hiring and self-employment that it has published today, and it occurs on the same day that Escrivá will meet with the main self-employed organizations, ATA, UPTA and Uatae, to discuss the new listing system, according to Europa Press.

"The number of freelancers who are going to have to contribute less because they have lower incomes far exceeds those who are going to contribute more,"

Escrivá defended last week, adding that "many have realized in the pandemic that to contribute more is more benefit ".

The unions, and specifically ATA, has shown their reluctance since, although they consider that "it makes perfect sense" to progressively adapt the system, they also defend that it is not the time to do so in the current context nor does it seem "feasible".

UPTA and Uatae, on the other hand, have been more favorable.

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