ATA calls the Government’s proposal to increase the contributions of the self-employed “sablazo” and UPTA asks to “improve it”

The president of the self-employed association (ATA), Lorenzo Lovehas assured that he is holding meetings with parliamentary groups to reject the decree raising contributions for self-employed workers that the Government presented to them this Monday in the form of a proposal.

“Congress is going to overthrow this sword“, Amor made clear in an interview this Tuesday on Telecinco, in which he referred to the quota proposal for the next three years that the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration proposed to employers, unions and self-employed associations.

Thus, he detailed that just yesterday held conversations with PP, Vox and Junts and that they are going to continue talking to more groups, whom he has encouraged to “portrait themselves.” “The decree will not have our endorsement and I hope neither will that of Congress,” he added.

The Ministry’s proposal supposes raise the lowest fee by 17 eurosup to 217.37 euros per month, and raise the highest by 206 eurosup to 796.24 euros.

So, by 2026 Those self-employed with incomes of less than 670 euros per month would pay a minimum fee of 217.37 euros, while those with more than 6,000 euros would pay a maximum of 796.24 euros.

By 2027the Government’s approach starts at 234.73 euros for the lowest range of returns and ends at 1,002.49 euros for the highest, and looking forward to 2028starts with 252.1 euros and closes at 1,208.73 euros. “The Government is in a bubble and does not know the situation that the self-employed and families are experiencing,” Amor lamented.

Likewise, he explained that when they closed the agreement the idea was that 75% of the self-employed would pay less and 25%, “a little more”, but that with the Ministry’s proposal, “100% will pay more“.

The agreement, signed in 2022, established a transitional period with reviews every three years in which the quotas for the following triennium would be established, with the objective that In 2032, self-employed workers will contribute based on their real income.

For his part, the president of the Union of Professionals and Self-Employed Workers, Eduardo Abadsays that the table presented this Monday by the Ministry of Social Security “is quite similar” to the one agreed upon that year by “the union organizations, the employers’ association and the self-employed associations.”

“Neverthelesswe have to study it in detail and make the necessary observations. What we believe is most important is to establish a section lower than the lowest section that exists for those self-employed in the artistic field who, being within other already affiliated regimes, can have access to being self-employed with lower contributions as long as their income does not exceed 4,000 euros,” says Abad in a statement.

Another aspect that UPTA demands is that the evolution of the economy in the coming years be taken into account and that the tables presented be adapted to such a situation. Finally, Abad has announced that throughout this week they will send their “improved” proposal to the Government to debate it.