The self-employed launch a counterproposal to the Government to raise contributions only with the CPI and deny that quotas must be raised to comply with the law

The self-employed employers’ association ATA, integrated into CEOE, has launched a counterproposal to the increases in the self-employed quota between 11 and 206 euros that Social Security put on the table last Monday. The organization chaired by Lorenzo Amor proposes that contribution bases rise each year according to the CPI until 2031when the transitional period established by law to achieve full contribution based on real income would end.

In principle, This new approach would result in significantly smaller increases in the quota than those proposed by the Ministry of Social Security of Elma Saiz, which suggested accumulated increases of between 11.3 and 105% for the period 2026-2028. For example, if the bases (and, therefore, the quotas) were updated with the September CPI, the increases would be 3% for all sections, while the ministry’s proposal proposes increases between 3.8 and 35% only in 2026.

For ATA, the self-employed “already contribute for their real income“and they point out that the 2022 law does not establish a mandatory contribution base in 2032. “An update of the bases according to the annual CPI until 2031 would be perfectly compatible with the agreement,” they report from the organization integrated into CEOE.

The organization led by Amor accuses the Government of wanting to deploy measures “blindly” without “consolidated” economic projections of how the regularizations have gone in 2024 and 2025. Something that prevents, in his words, “a rigorous and fair evaluation of the system.” Along these lines, they advocate a “gradual and reviewable” deployment and not an “automatic increase” in quotas.

From ATA they consider that The current discussion is motivated “by a desire to raise money” while they accuse the Executive of “failing to comply” by not granting the same social protection to the self-employed as to employees. “It is not necessary to raise fees to comply with the pact, it is imperative that the administration fulfills its commitment to equalize rights and protections,” they maintain.

Among these unfulfilled rights, they demand that the benefit for cessation of activity is automatically granted (the ‘self-employed strike’) when businesses close permanently; that they be granted permits such as breastfeeding or death, that they can access unemployment benefits for those over 52 years of age, among other improvements.