The Executive will also allow self-employed workers to present invoices that are valid until September 30. Previously, the money could only be used to pay debts with suppliers dated until May 31.
The Government finally approved this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers a change in the decree published in March, which contained a package of 7,000 million euros of direct aid for companies and the self-employed hit by the pandemic, with which it more clearly introduces that the money can be used to cover accounting losses and not only to pay debts with suppliers.
In addition, the money can be used to pay debts and fixed costs incurred until September 30, thus extending the period by four months (previously it was until May 31).
The Executive has insisted that with this modification "the concept of fixed costs incurred includes the accounting losses generated during the coverage period. Thus, the self-employed and companies will be able to use the aid to satisfy debts and make payments to suppliers and other creditors, financial and non-financial, as well as to compensate for fixed costs incurred, including accounting losses, as long as they have been generated within the established period. ».
In this way, the Ministry of Economy wants to unblock the situation in which these funds currently find themselves, of which not even half have been requested by companies, according to UPTA alert (the Union of Professionals and Self-Employed Workers). ).
This change comes just one day after the first vice president and Minister of Economy, Nadia Calviño, announced that her portfolio was preparing "a clarification" of the terms of the aid, in order to facilitate more companies to use the funds.
Some autonomous communities, such as Madrid, had harshly criticized the decree, as they considered it to be poorly designed. «Calviño will have to lower his arrogance, recognize that he poorly designed the direct aid decree-law, and modify it. Without a new law that corrects the mistakes of the previous one, it will be impossible for aid to reach all the companies and self-employed workers that have been excluded," said the Minister of Economy and Finance of the Community of Madrid, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty.
For his part, for the president of ATA (the National Federation of Self-Employed Workers Associations), Lorenzo Amor, the Executive's announcement is insufficient. “The failure will continue. Tens of thousands of self-employed workers will be left out of direct aid even though they will lose 80% of their turnover,” he lamented on his personal Twitter account, in which he recalled that there are certain self-employed workers such as “journalists, tourist guides, photographers, translators.” , who do not have expenses or invoices to justify, which is why, he indicates, they are excluded from this aid.
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