The new contribution system for the self-employed will begin to be applied gradually from next year, when installments of between 245 and 500 euros will be paid, with a rise in 2024 to reach in 2025 the amounts that were practically agreed upon last Monday the Government with the social agents. The application schedule for these three years had yet to be agreed upon and the Minister of Social Security, José Luis Escrivá, already sent them the complete proposal this Tuesday morning.
Escrivá, once again, has once again yielded to the employer's requests and the increase in fees for those who enter the most will be progressive. This was requested by ATA, the main association of the self-employed that is integrated into the CEOE. However, the reduction of quotas for those who earn the least will also be done gradually, despite the fact that unions and associations such as UPTA and UATAE had requested that they be implemented since January.
In any case, the agreement seems to be practically closed, in the absence of Social Security sending the complete definitive text, and it could already materialize in "the next few hours", according to what the negotiators explained to this newspaper.
Specifically, the self-employed who have net income of less than 670 euros per month will start paying a fee of 245 euros in 2023 (almost 50 euros less than now, when the minimum contribution is 294 euros), in 2024 it will fall a little more, up to 237 euros, and in 2025 it will stay at 230 euros.
Along the same lines, all self-employed workers with an income of less than 1,300 euros will start 2023 with lower quotas than the current one and they will be reduced a little more in 2024 and 2025. In total about 2.2 million. For those who earn between 1,300 and 1,700 euros, the current contribution of 294 euros is frozen for the next three years.
More quota for 800,000 self-employed
On the contrary, from 1,700 euros of net income, a progressive increase in contributions will be applied in 2023 that will affect nearly 800,000 self-employed workers. The highest fee will be 500 euros in 2023, 530 euros in 2024 and 590 euros in 2025.
From UPTA they consider that this "progressive proposal" made by the Executive "adjusts" to what they wanted "from the beginning", for which its president, Eduardo Abad, urged all parties to sign an agreement because "they do not making the definitive change in the contribution model" would be "a true irresponsibility", since "it only benefits the self-employed with high incomes and forgets the self-employed who make a titanic effort to be able to pay all the fees".
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