Vox offered a bonus Quota of 100% independents to professionals who bill below the interprofessional minimum wage (SMI). The training led by Santiago Abascal defends that this measure would have a cost of 2,760 million euros for state coffers. The current SMI in Spain amounts to 5,876 euros per year divided into 14 monthly payments. 1,134 euros. This proposal was presented by MP Vox Jdaring María Figaredo this Friday at a press conference. “This initiative is particularly aimed at self-employed workers, who are the most forgotten in Spain. In Spain there is around 3 million self-employed workers and no one ever seems to remember,” Figaredo said.
“These are workers who They don’t have schedules, they don’t have illnesseswho do not understand the weekend, who do not disconnect their cell phone, on whom all responsibility for the company falls. And we are now launching an initiative in the form of PNL that we had already launched months ago to respond directly to it,” declared the deputy from Abascal’s party. In addition, this Vox measure proposes to give independents the possibility of equate their VAT payment deadlines with the Treasury reimbursement deadlines, because in this way their liquidity is favored.
José María Figaredo gives as an example self-employed workers who charge 2 euros per month, having to pay the minimum contribution, estimated at 300 euros per month. “It’s absolutely counterproductive. This is not profitable and ultimately discourages work. And on the other hand, we believe that it is essential that the self-employed equate their VAT payment deadlines with the deadlines available to the Treasury for the declaration of hypothetical VAT or personal income tax declarations. In other words, self-employed workers in Spain must pay VAT every three months for the activities they have carried out,” he explained.
“Often these VAT settlements have to be made while the Treasury still owes them money, either for previous negative VAT returns or for personal income tax returns which have been returned to them. Well, what we are asking is that the self-employed do not have to pay a penny to the Treasury until The Treasury has not settled with them all unpaid debts,” he added.
Reduce “unnecessary expenses”
The Vox parliamentarian also detailed that this proposal intended for independents poses a “180 degree turn to the personal income tax collection system. It therefore offers a unique reduced rate of 15% to be applied to tax bases lower than 70,000 euros and an ordinary type of 25% on tax bases greater than 70,000 euros, the first 22,000 euros being exempt.
Figaredo explained that the proposal provides that tax rates would be reduced by four points per child, that is, a family with four children would not pay income tax if the income is less than 70,000 euros and would only pay 9% if their income is higher than this amount.
“This is a substantial change that reduces the tax burden, stimulates the creation of families in Spain and benefits Spaniards who have more children,” he said, while specifying that the costs of this proposal would be 20 billion.
As Figaredo explains, these amounts “could be covered” if they were reduced “unnecessary expenses” of public administration. “In Spain there are many ways to waste the money that Spaniards contribute and what is missing are initiatives in favor of families and self-employed workers,” added the Vox MP.
The objective of the non-legal proposal presented by Vox is that self-employed people have “a greater cushion” and that they can “start a complementary professional activity”. “In short, we want to achieve two specific objectives with this initiative aimed at self-employed workers. On the one hand, those who earn less than the inter-professional SMIC have a larger cushion, Or these 300 euros more per month,” he noted.
“And also that people who could start a professional activity in addition to a professional activity that they already carry out can be launched on the market. This initiative would allow the emergence of economic activities which today would not generate more than the inter-professional minimum wage and which, therefore, would not be economically profitable. We believe that this initiative that we have presented would allow the emergence of a great economic activity that is currently hidden,” concluded José María Figaredo.
