The Government exempts the unemployed from submitting the income tax return to collect the benefit

The omnibus macrodecree that the Government approved on Tuesday includes a provision that has gone unnoticed. Between the increase in pensions, the extension of the electric social bonus, aid for electric cars, or the ban on evictions, The Executive has also approved an exemption from submitting the income tax return for the unemployed who collect benefits. This is how he has advanced it The Diary this Wednesday.

Unemployed people who receive benefits will not be required to submit an income tax return in order to collect unemployment benefits, a requirement that was included in the General Social Security Law. Consequently, they will not be able to lose their benefit if they have not declared personal income tax. The Government has justified the change in that the obligation to present a declaration “exceeds the intent of the standarda, which was initially to provide an additional source of information to the entity managing unemployment benefits”.

“It is not advisable to incorporate this formal obligation, which is alsowould result in an unnecessary increase in the administrative burden for the working person”, maintains the text of the omnibus decree published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) this Wednesday. Other Social Security benefits such as the Minimum Living Income or the unemployment subsidy do require submitting an income declaration, precisely because one of the conditions to receive them is not to exceed a certain income level.

However, it is important to clarify that This exemption only affects the regulations that regulate unemployment benefits. If the requirements established by the Personal Income Tax Law to file a return are met, it is still mandatory to do so. For example, when income from work of more than 22,000 euros has been obtained, when there are two payers, when certain deductions are received or in the case of the self-employed.

Pensions and self-employed contributions

The star measures of the omnibus decree, which Congress will have to decide whether to validate or not next January, are the increase in pensions and the freezing of self-employed contributions. So, pensions will rise by 2.7% across the boardalthough certain benefits will be revalued more substantially.

Minimum pensions grow by 7%, but when there is a dependent spouse or family responsibilities in the case of widows, they will be revalued by 11.4%. Similarly, non-contributory pensions will also increase by 11.4%, the same percentage that will be applied to the minimum vital income, which is linked to this benefit.

Regarding self-employed quotas, andThe Government has chosen to extend to 2026 those already in force in 2025which range between 200 and 590 euros per month. The impossibility of reaching an agreement in time with unions and collective associations has forced the Executive to freeze them.

Beyond these measures, The omnibus decree also updates the minimum and maximum contribution bases. Extends tax incentives for electric vehicles, charging infrastructure and investments that use renewable energy in personal income tax and corporations. In addition, it exempts from tax the aid received by those affected by the tragic wave of fires last summer.

In the tax area, it includesUpdate of deliveries on account to autonomous communities and local entities based on calculations prepared last June. Normally, payments on account are updated in the General State Budgets (PGE), but since they have been extended for another year, the Government has chosen to approve them via decree law.

In addition, the omnibus decree maintains that the State can authorize the Valencian Community to take on more long-term debt or resort to additional financing mechanisms to cover the needs left by the tragic DANA at the end of October 2024.