The quotas of the new system will be fixed in the budgets of each year and Escrivá opens the door in the new rule already drawn up not to apply them in January
Important step forward in the new premium system for the self-employed based on real income. The government has finally given shape to the proposal that has hitherto been oral on the social dialogue table and has already drafted the draft bill establishing the new contribution model and sent it to the social partners last Saturday morning. It is 74 pages in which it makes clear the “obligation” of the more than 3.3 million self-employed persons to contribute to social security “on the basis of the annual income obtained in the exercise of their economic or professional activities”, according to the text to which this newspaper has had access.
For this, self-employed persons must choose the corresponding monthly premium income on the basis of their annual net income forecast, within a scale of bases, limited by a minimum and a maximum base for each year, which is, however, free to determine annually in the General State Budget Act. .
His idea is to include in this bill the new table of the allowances that the self-employed will have to pay over the next three years, but nevertheless the Social Security Minister, José Luis Escrivá, leaves the door open not to agree before that end of June. the thirteen premium tranches it plans to implement with quotas between 250 euros and 550 euros, according to the last proposal on the table which, however, has the direct rejection of the CEOE. This is the table that today’s meeting will also have had on the table, but there is also the option of not including it in the standard now and thus recording it in the budgets that are being prepared.
In any case, to ensure a smooth application, the draft provides that during the year 2023 “self-employed persons will contribute with the premium income of those provided on the scale established in said department which, by excess or default, is closest in comes close to the one they came to trade for in December 2022 ». In other words, the Executive is opening his hand to not fully implement the new system in January, but that next year, an election year, the contributions of this group will be comparable to the current ones.
What the regulation does emphasize is that the ultimate goal of the government is to gradually increase the minimum base of self-employment in 2023, 2024 and 2025 so that it is equal to the minimum base of the General Regime on January 1, 2026. And there is a gap between the two regimes, because while the minimum bse for wage earners is 1,166.7 euros, it is 966 euros for the self-employed.
The text also states that self-employed workers can change the system up to six times a year, depending on how much they earn, with the aim of making contributions as close to their net return as possible. In any case, the system contains an automatic correction at the end of the year, so that if the self-employed person has chosen a base that is higher than his income, the system reimburses the overpaid amount, even though he has paid less than he has paid. has earned, he must fill in the difference.
On the other hand, the royal decree that the government intends to approve shortly contains what this newspaper already pointed out last week: a new social protection system for the self-employed with four different models of cessation of activity, the so-called ‘stop’ of the self-employed. Thus, the extraordinary cessation of activity introduced during the pandemic will become permanent for those cases where an extraordinary rescue is required, such as the closure of the hotel sector declared during this health crisis.
For its part, the traditional cessation of ordinary activity – so far the only benefit in existence – is being restructured and extended to three different schemes: the cessation of sectoral activities, for sectors that may be particularly affected for whatever reason; the ordinary termination of force majeure, for self-employed persons who are in a weak or weak position in their company; and in turn there will be a reinforcement for all self-employed persons who have to temporarily stop their activity. In each of these protection schemes, the self-employed will receive 50% of their premium income for six months and must pay a loss billing of 75% and an income below the SMI demonstrate.
Source: La Verdad
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