After months of negotiations, the agreement to change the self-employed contribution system is about to be closed. There is a pre-agreement on the table, to which several associations have already given their approval and only the formal approval of ATA and the employers is missing. This morning UATAE, the association of freelancers linked to CC.OO. and that he maintained his opposition to the latest proposal by the Minister for Inclusion and Social Security, José Luis Escrivá, has given his approval. For its part, UPTA, linked to UGT, also agrees.
Thus, the formal acceptance by the employers and ATA would be pending, which has still not made an official statement, although everything indicates that if there are no last-minute surprises, it will end up endorsing it. There are "pending fringes", they pointed out this Tuesday from ATA, and the decision will be made at the CEOE and Cepyme Board of Directors tomorrow.
Escrivá's plan contemplates reaching the final model in three years, with annual touch-ups. With the new system, the group will be divided into a total of 15 sections, ranging from those who earn less than 670 euros per month to those who earn more than 6,000 euros.
In accordance with the last proposal that was on the table, the fee for the self-employed who earn less is gradually lowered, with net returns of less than 670 euros. They will pay 230 euros in 2023 (they save 767 euros per year on the current fee), 225 euros in 2024 (827 euros in savings) and 200 in 2025 (1,127 euros less).
Those with incomes of between 670 and 900 euros will also save 407 euros per year; 227 euros for those who enter between 900 and 1,166.70 euros and 35 euros per year for those who enter between 1,166.70 and 1,300 euros.
The rest of the sections will pay more each year, from 1 extra euro for those of 1,300 to 1,700 euros up to 3,553 euros in the most notable case.
Regarding the self-employed with more income, the quota of 500 euros is maintained in 2023 (they will pay 1,466 euros more per year than the current system), 530 euros in 2024 (they will pay 2,833 euros more per year) and 590 euros in 2025 (3,553 euros more), with progressive increases.
The general secretary of UATAE, María José Landaburu, has affirmed that "we have followed the negotiation with a constructive spirit and we have advanced so that in 2025 the quota remains at 200 euros for the section with the least income and at 220 euros in the next section, which allows us to move towards the definitive contribution model for real income in a fairer way”.
The truth is that the final design is far from the first ambitious plan of Minister Escrivá, although it maintains the great transformation that supposes that it is quoted from real income, and not the free choice of the self-employed. In this way, it has gone from a nine-year calendar to one of only three, until 2025, with the commitment to renegotiate the sections from that year.
In this way, the change is much less radical. For the self-employed with more income, the increase in the fee is currently 590 euros in 2025, and for those with less income it is reduced to 200 euros in that year.
