The self-employed would only accept an increase of the minimum contribution base of 1.5%
MadridUpdated:
The main autonomous organization, ATA, has made a proposal to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security in which it would accept an increase in the minimum base for 2019 of 1.5% as a maximum, instead of the approximately 2.3% that the department proposed.
The latest Labor proposal links the rise of the minimum base next year to annual inflation that will be registered in November this year, around 2.3%, a measure that would imply an expense for the self-employed higher than 260 euros per year, a figure that ATA considers "unaffordable".
The organization recalls at this point that, according to a recent survey, 80% of self-employed rejected a rise in contributions, the majority (71%) because they could not assume it. The current minimum contribution base for self-employed workers (932.7 euros per month) it is three times higher than the one that existed three decades ago and has been revalued 21.1% in the last 15 years, with average annual increases of 1.4%.
For all this, the organization presided over by Lorenzo Amor poses three possible scenarios to Labor of increase of contributions for the self-employed, also the companies, that would not suppose in no case an expense superior to the 60 annual euros and in which the contingencies of pensions, temporary incapacity, cessation of activity and formation would be included.
At First stage that the organization would accept the minimum base would go up in 1.5% in 2019 and the type of quotation would be of 29.8%; the second, it would consist of a minimum base increase of 1%, with a rate of 30%; Y the third, would imply the freezing of the minimum base at the current 932.7 euros, but with an initial rate of 30.3%, which would increase to 30.6% in 2020 and 30.9% in 2021 as a result of the rise progressive of what the self-employed pay for professional contingencies.
These three scenarios would be linked to other measures, as the establishment of a reduced fee for the self-employed who enter less than the annual SMI. This fee would be 55 euros per month for those who bill up to 6,000 euros per year; of 75 euros for income between 6,001 and 8,000 euros per year; of 100 euros per month for income between 8,001 and 10,000 euros per year, and 125 euros per month for those who bill between 10,001 and 12,600 euros per year.
ATA is not in favor of forcing the self-employed to contribute for professional contingencies or for cessation of activity and he prefers that this decision remains voluntary. In the first case, it alleges that many freelancers contribute nothing to pay for professional contingencies and in the second case, the one of cessation of activity, denounces that access to the benefit is complex as the system is currently configured.
Other binding measures for any of the scenarios of raising the minimum base proposed by ATA would be to maintain the current conditions of the flat rate, although increased from 50 to 55 euros per month (10%); exempt from the contribution payment in situations of temporary disability from the 60 day of loss; possibility of tax deduction for the main self-employed person of the quota and salary of self-employed collaborators; enjoy the benefits for self-employed workers with Social Security debts through compensation agreements, and a flat rate of 55 euros per month for self-employed persons who join after maternity leave without having to cease first in the activity.
