The

Government

and the main associations of self-employed workers (

ATA, UPTA and UATAE

) have held this Monday afternoon the second meeting of the year to discuss the reform of the Special Regime for Self-Employed Workers (RETA), in an appointment with little progress that It has served to verify

how different the positions defended by each one are.

José Luis Escrivá's proposal consists of establishing

thirteen different sections of net

income (income minus deductible expenses), in which each self-employed person must be framed based on their earnings and on which the quota they must pay to Social Security will be calculated - being able to change section up to 6 times a year. The objective is to get

the self-employed to contribute based on their real income, just as salaried employees do.

With this system, which would be implemented progressively from next year and

would come into full force in 2032

, the self-employed who fall within the first two sections (less than 600 euros of income per month, or income from 600 to 900 euros per month) will come out ahead as they will have to pay less to Social Security than they do now.

Those who have yields between 1,125 and 1,300 euros would stay the same and all those who enter more than 1,300 would pay more.

The Government calculates that

66% of the self-employed will pay less

-that is, two out of three enter less than 900 euros per month-, while

the associations calculate that the drop will only affect half.

Once the starting point was presented,

criticism has rained down.

ATA

, the majority association in the sector that is attached to the CEOE and is chaired by

Lorenzo Amor

, has been the toughest and has shown its

"absolute rejection".

As he explained to this medium, they are opposed to three things: first, that

net returns are used and not income

, since they believe that this will generate inequality because there are self-employed workers who cannot deduct expenses due to their activity and will have to pay much more ;

Second, they don't see it as fair that for those whose quota is increased, the rise is 40%, and for those who are lowered, it is 10%;

and, third, they oppose the increase proposed as early as 2023 for those who enter more than 1,300 euros.

In short, they reject the entire proposal.

Despite ruling it out, this association

has not wanted to bring any proposal to the dialogue table.

Contrary proposals

Different is the position of

UPTA

, linked to UGT and closer to the positions of the Government, or

UATAE

, usually related to the postulates of Podemos.

The first, led by

Eduardo Abad

, has brought to the table a proposal in which it mainly asks for a

drop in fees for the lowest tranches and a faster rise for the highest.

Specifically, it proposes that although in 9 years (when the projection horizon ends and the reform is fully deployed) the quotas of the lowest tranches are even higher than those of the Government, a considerable reduction is applied in the coming years .

The

Executive

proposed that, for example, those who enter less than 600 euros pay next year 281.5 euros of fee; in 2024 it would drop to 269.3 euros... and so on until reaching

183 euros in 2032

.

UPTA

, on the other hand, believes that the share of this group should drop to 183.6 next year and gradually rise until it reaches

208.08 in 2032

. The same would happen in the next section.

The following (from 900 to 1,125 euros per month) would remain unchanged;

while the following three would be grouped into one (from 1,125 to 1,700 euros).

From here,

the increases would be applied at a rate higher

than that proposed by the Government, so that next year these self-employed would have to pay more than what Escrivá proposes, as stated in the three-page document with his proposal to which El Mundo has had access.

UPTA

also proposes creating a

special regime for artistic or cultural activity

, with two lower sections with fixed fees:

90 euros per month

fee for those who have

yields of less than 300 euros per month and a 135-euro fee for those who earn less than 450 euros per month

.

They also want

the transition period to be 6 years instead of 9.

UATAE

also asks that the

transition period be shorter

-especially because the self-employed with less income cannot wait so long to see their quota reduced- and that

net returns

be used and not income, the opposite of what ATA proposes.

Despite the different positions put on the table,

the Ministry has made a "very positive" assessment of the meeting

and has promised to study the ideas "to achieve a fairer, more flexible system with greater and better protective action."

The interlocutors have agreed to

meet every Monday from now

on and to deal with the different aspects of the reform one by one in isolation, in order to be able to make better progress.

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  • Jose Luis Escriva

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Real incomeThis is how the new self-employed quotas will remain according to the Government's proposal that would come into force in 2023

RETAThe new quota system proposed by Escrivá divides the self-employed associations

Social Security The Government has only spent 1,730 million euros on the Minimum Income of the 3,000 budgeted for 2021

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