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After the meeting held this past Monday between the Government and the self-employed associations, which served to bring positions closer together on the new contribution system for employed workers and leave the agreement for judgment, the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration , Jose Luis Escriva, transferred a transitory proposal for the amount of the fees that workers must pay monthly in the next three years. Specifically, this document proposes an increase in the 28%in three years of the maximum quota for the self-employed who have net returns above 6,000 euros per month in the highest bracket. And one reduction gradual of the minimum fee in this three-year 25% for those who enter less than 670 euros per month.
Specifically, according to official data handled by the Ministry of Social Security at this time workers with net income below 670 euros per month they quote an average of 307 euros per month. This figure would be reduced by 25% at the end of the transitional period, in 2025, to stand at 230 euros. For this group, a quota of 245 euros would be set in 2023 and would be reduced again to 237 euros in 2024. After the full application of the measure, the savings would amount to 77 euros per month.
At the other end of the table, the self-employed with the highest income, above 4,050 euros per month, are listed on average at 461 euros at present according to the Ministry itself. This group of self-employed would see an increase in the payment of contributions between 15% and 28% more in 2025 regarding this moment.
Specifically, by including a new income step, the resulting section of the self-employed with income of between 4,050 and 6,000 euros per month they would currently pay an average of 461 to 530 euros (+15%). Namely, 69 euros more per month. For this group, a quota of 420 euros is foreseen in 2023 and 445 euros in 2024.
While those who obtain net returns above 6.00o euros monthly this increase will be 28% going from those 461 euros to 590 euros of fee in 2025, that is, 129 euros more per month relative to the current average. These workers would pay, according to the Government’s proposal, a fee of 500 euros in 2023 and 530 euros in 2024.
Application in three stages
In this way, the first four installments, those that range from net returns of less than 670 euros to less than 1,300 euros, will see a reduction in their fees between 2023 and 2025, from between 15 euros, in the case of the first tranche, to 1 euro, in the fourth tranche. While the sections 5 and 6for those self-employed workers who earn between 1,300 euros and less than 1,500 euros, and between 1,500 euros and less than 1,700 euros, respectively, they will maintain a quota of 294 euros over the three years.
From section 7for the self-employed who earn more than 1,700 euros onwards, the Social Security proposal contemplates increases in contributions until 2025. In this way, a self-employed person who has net income of between 1,700 euros and less than 1,850 euros, in the tranche seven, will pay a fee of 310 euros in 2023, which will rise to 320 euros in 2024 and end at 350 euros in 2025.
The climb for sections from 7 to 15 It will range between 40 euros and 110 euros. The sections in which the fee increases the most over these three years are 13 and 14. In the section 13for the self-employed with net income above 3,620 euros and less than 4,050, the fee starts in 2023 at 390 euros, goes to 400 euros in 2024 and stands at 490 euros in 2025, 100 euros more in total.
For him section 14, with income above 4,050 euros and less than 6,000 euros per month, the reform of the contribution system starts with a quota of 420 euros in 2023, continues with 445 euros in 2024 and ends at 530 euros in 2025, 110 euros more in three years. For him section 15 the progressivity will be an escalation of 90 euros, between 500 euros in 2023, 530 euros in 2024 and 590 euros in 2025.
key week
With these figures on the table, there could still be nuances on the tables relating to 2023 and 2024, in the aspect of the transiencealthough sources close to the negotiation confirm that it would end up reaching the final proposal of 2025 that the executive announced this past Monday to the social agents.
In addition, they recognize since the month of negotiation that although there is no rush before the Brussels exam that the Government plans to overcome after the approval of the legal framework of the reform of the Special Scheme for Self-Employed Workers in the Council of Ministers on Monday, yes that recognize the need to clear as soon as possible this element compromised with the European Comission in the Recovery Plan as compensation for the arrival of reconstruction funds. The arrival of 6,000 million euros from the third tranche corresponding to Spain will depend on this measure and other milestones in the matter of pensions, the second this year after the release of the first 12,000 million for the milestones fulfilled in the second half of last year.
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