Sumar proposed extending the solidarity contribution to the Special Scheme for Self-Employed Workers (RETA), so that self-employed workers who obtain a net income greater than the maximum contribution base pay the contribution in the same way as salaried workers.
This solidarity tax was approved in March this year and represents an additional contribution for income exceeding the maximum annual contribution base, established at 4,720.5 euros per month for the year 2024. The tax will begin to apply from 2025.
In the case of self-employed workers, the plurinational group has proposed in a non-legal proposal that will be debated in the Labor Commission that said quota be applied to people who obtain income above 6,000 euros per month, of which the maximum base of contribution is 4,495.5 euros.
The plurinational group also wishes to assimilate the contribution bases for the highest brackets of self-employed workers to their actual income, without exhausting the transitional period provided for these new income brackets.
And, explains the group, in the old contribution system based on the free choice of the base, many people contributed to the minimum regardless of their income, thus generating a financing deficit for the system and “under-protection”. for the self-employed.
The self-employed have a 66% lower pension
One of the consequences of contributing with the minimum base, for example, is that the average retirement pension for the self-employed is 962.78 euros, while for employees this figure reaches 1,600.85 euros, or 66. 27% more.
This is why the group, also in accordance with the recommendations of the Toledo Pact, considers it necessary to adjust, with greater precision, the relationship between real salary and contribution bases, as well as the need to raise the maximum contribution ceiling and the maximum pension.
Finally, given that the new self-employed contribution system benefits the lowest incomes the most, Sumar wants to reduce as much as possible the transition period for the implementation of the new contribution system based on real income, particularly in sections whose net returns are lower than actual income. the SMI.
