Congress approves new contribution system for self-employed

reform, which the first step for this group to contribute based on their actual income, approved by 260 votes in favour (PSOE, PP, United We Can, PNV and PdeCAT); With 66 against (VOX and Ciudadanos) and 25 abstentions (ERC, Bildu, BNG), its processing as a bill was almost unanimously supported (just one vote out of 349).

Minister of Inclusion and Social Security, José Luis Escrivaargued that the self-employment system was a reform “It will increase the fairness, flexibility and sustainability of the system”It allows for Social Security’s “protective action” to be extended to the group of self-employed workers.

In his speech to Congress, Escrivá recalled that the reform was in response to the mandate brought by the Toledo Pact in 2020, was the result of the agreement with the social representatives and met one of the milestones of the recovery plan.

“A turning point”

The minister assured that the reform would take place. a “turning point” for the collective Proportion of self-employed persons who set off from an “abnormal” situation in the European context because there is no relationship between income and contribution.

Regarding the new contribution quotas, he said they would be “significantly reduced” for self-employed people whose net income is below the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI), and “similar or less” for those with an SMI between 1,700 euros.

Escrivá reminded new system “much more” than some new sectionsargued for a “structural” reform in the relationship between the self-employed group and Social Security.

The PP, as previously announced, voted in favor of the initiative, but his deputy, Tomás Cabezón, wanted it to be processed as a bill, as the royal decree was a “starting point” where “improvements could be contained”. .

This is an issue cited by some MPs, such as PNV Íñigo Barandarián, who asked the Government to use the royal decree figure for the last time as it is unlikely to affect its content.

Nevertheless, he declared I’m voting in favor because it’s a “good deal”.Responding to the recommendations of the Toledo Pact and aiming to bring the self-employed contributions closer to their real income.

PSOE calls this “historical justification”

Not surprisingly, the coalition government partners PSOE and United We Can supported the reform. Socialist MP María Mercè Perea “historical claim” The representative of UP Isabel Franco stated that it is a law that “makes great progress” for the group in question, while it “ends an ineffective and discriminatory system”.

Bildu abstained, and his deputy, Oskar Matute, explained that although the reform “improved some of the conditions” of the group, it did not “solve some of the underlying problems”, thus being “a half-answer”.

“inadequate” for CKD

ERC representative Joan Capdevila noticed that the painting looked “inadequate”. and drew attention to “very harmful situations”, such as self-employed farmers with the lowest pensions or the disabled self-employed.

Only Ciudadanos and Vox voted against the reform. The representative of this last party, María Inés Cañizares, is of the opinion that this new contribution system revolves around three axes: lies, increase in collections and attacks on the freedom of the self-employed, suppression of voting rights.