"In Spain there are first and second self-employed"
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Joy for him direct aid plan it took just a few days to dissipate. The president of the main association of freelancers, ATA, Lorenzo Love, has cried out today against the distribution that will be made between the autonomous communities of these funds since it generates a "great distortion" between the self-employed and SMEs of the different regions. "There will be first and second freelancers, depending on whether you have been fortunate to have your activity in one community or another. Some will have more resources than others», Amor has warned.
Criticisms focus on the fact that the distribution will generate situations in which some communities will see their resources scarce and others will lack, a situation that the PP has already been warning about, through its deputy Elvira Rodríguez. For Amor, the distribution will generate situations of imbalance: "The Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands will have plenty while Galicia and Castilla-León will lack resources." Which, in his opinion, involves "punishing" the self-employed in some communities against others, which is "inconsistent" taking into account that the self-employed have suffered the consequences of the pandemic "equally" throughout Spain.
The distribution of aid is so unfair that only 40% of the self-employed in Castilla y León or Galicia could access and others could reach 100%
Minimum aid per self-employed person, € 3,000 in modules, 4,000 in other tax systems pic.twitter.com/HATAOp3Q1o- Lorenzo Amor (@lorenzoamor_ata) March 26, 2021
“The distribution of aid is so unfair that only 40% of the self-employed in Castilla y León or Galicia will be able to access it and others could reach 100%. Minimum aid per self-employed person, 3,000 euros in modules, 4,000 euros in other tax systems, ”Amor lamented in a tweet. The complaints about the distribution are added to the dust raised by the choice of the sectors selected as possible beneficiaries of the aid.
Excluded sectors
And it is that many businesses They will be left out for not belonging to one of the 95 fixed activities by the Government to receive the economic injection, a requirement that Economy has drawn up taking as a reference the sectors that are making the most use of ERTE. But those affected defend themselves and point out that there are many businesses of freelancers and micro-SMEs that do not have workers in their charge and, therefore, do not appear in the ERTEs, and that they have not invoiced or have had a very reduced turnover for a year now.
The exclusion designed by the economic vice president would leave 59% of companies in Madrid and 56% of those in Catalonia without aid, according to Cepymes denounced yesterday. And it would damage activities affected by the lack of tourism as well as by the containment of consumption. Hairdressers, beauty centers, driving schools, academies, non-regulated training, souvenir shops, decoration, car parts, mechanical workshops, bike rentals, wineries, toy stores, florists, artistic and literary activities, among others. All have mobilized for the Executive to eliminate the criterion of activity and adjust only to the decline suffered in that activity.
The controversy also bubbles on the political plane. The distribution published this morning by the BOE leaves Canary Islands as the main recipient of these grants, with 1,144.3 million euros, closely followed by Andalusia, with 1,109.2 million, and Catalonia, with 993.2 million, which means that these three autonomies will receive 46.38% of these aid, while the Community of Madrid is in fifth place in this distribution, despite the great impact of the crisis in the capital , and will receive 679.28 million, 9.7% of the total.
"TO Madrid arrive 101 euros per inhabitant, to Valencia 128 and Catalonia, 130 ", protests the Madrid Minister of Finance, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, who calls the distribution" injustice "and regrets the" punishment ", in his words, of the Government of the Community of Madrid, which already denounced in ABC the damage to the capital.
Thus, the Canary Islands, Andalusia and Catalonia are the main recipients, followed by the Balearic Islands (about 855.74 million); Community of Madrid (679.29); Valencian Community (647.08); Galicia (234.47); Castilla y León (233.56); Basque Country (almost 218); Castilla-La Mancha (206.34); Murcia (142.52) Aragon (141.35); Asturias (107.77); Extremadura (106.47); Navarra (67.62); Cantabria (55.36); La Rioja (32.51); Ceuta (13.85) and Melilla (12.27).
