The Government will again increase the quota of the self-employed between 96 and 225 euros per year in 2022

The draft General State Budgets (PGE) includes new increases both in monthly quotas and in the contribution base for self-employed workers starting next year. The Union of Professionals and Self-Employed Workers (UPTA) and the National Federation of Self-Employed Workers Associations (ATA) have criticized this Thursday the measure, taken “without dialogue” with the group.

The measures included in the project of public accounts delivered yesterday in the Congress of Deputies foresee an increase in collection by 173 million euros. On the one hand, the minimum contribution base will be increased to 960.60 euros (currently 944.40), which will mean an increase of 60 euros more per year for self-employed individuals and 76 euros for self-employed companies.

On the other hand, the fixed rate will also be raised, which will go from 30.3% to 30.6%, which translates into between 36 euros and 149 euros more per year for the self-employed and between 44 and 149 euros for those who have incorporated a company.

In practice, the 1.8 million freelancers who contribute for the minimum base pay eight euros more fee per month. In a message thread at Twitter, Lorenzo Amor, president of the Association of Self-Employed Workers (ATA), has detailed that “this will cause a self-employed person to have to pay between 96 and 225 euros more next year, depending on whether he is a self-employed individual or self-employed company. “.

In his opinion, “it is not the best time” to implement a measure of this nature. It should be remembered that the rise in quotas was frozen in January as part of the measures to help the sector due to the drop in income due to the pandemic.

The same dissatisfaction has been shown by the Union of Professional and Self-Employed Workers (UPTA). In a statement they regret that only Esquerra Republica de Cataluña (ERC) has presented a non-law proposal before the Congress of Deputies to stop this measure. “We do not understand the repeated refusal of the Ministries of Economy and Finance to put a stop to one of the biggest tax injustices that the group of self-employed workers suffers “, stressed Eduardo Abad, president of UPTA.

From UPTA, in addition, they have criticized that this Budget project does not include deductions for maintenance, a situation with which more than 1.2 million self-employed workers “are harmed.”