Social Security extends the self-employed contributions and hopes to achieve an settlement to lift them in 2026 | Economy | EUROtoday

The Council of Ministers has accredited the extension of the self-employed quotas. Thus, the desk of contributions that self-employed staff should pay in 2026 doesn’t change with respect to what they have been contributing in 2025, not less than so long as the Government doesn’t attain an settlement to vary them. The Ministry of Social Security confirms the extension, however on the identical time signifies that “negotiations with the group continue to reach an agreement throughout the year.”

The negotiation to lift self-employed quotas started with depth after which got here to a standstill. On the primary day of dialogue on the matter, on October 13, Social Security proposed a big improve in contributions, considerably greater within the decrease brackets than in some intermediate brackets and even greater within the higher brackets. It was not preferred by both the left or the suitable. Just just a few days later, the minister of the sector, Elma Saiz, corrected that strategy in an interview in EL PAÍS: though she defended its comfort to achieve the aim of contributing to actual earnings in 2032, she slowed down the deployment of the system.

In a gathering on October 20, the ministry proposed freezing the bottom charges and progressive will increase beneath inflation for the remaining. Since then, the ministry has not referred to as a proper assembly once more, however there have been feedback from social brokers and parliamentary teams that distanced the potential for an settlement. Negotiation sources keep that La Moncloa wanted to freeze the negotiation as a result of rejection that the ministry’s proposal aroused.

The president of the ATA self-employed affiliation and in addition vice chairman of CEOE, Lorenzo Amor, has celebrated the extension: “The self-employed quotas will not increase in 2026. That is what we asked for and that is how it will be in the end. The self-employed quotas are frozen in 2026 and will be the same sections and tables as in 2025.” Amor has harassed that “the self-employed who can and want can raise their contribution bases between the minimum and maximum of their net return tranche.”

It is difficult to anticipate an agreement between Social Security and ATA and the CEOE to raise the contributions, despite the fact that the employers’ organizations did participate in the pact that established the objective of contributions based on real income in 2032. There are more options that the self-employed associations linked to the unions, UATAE and UPTA, end up meeting the Executive.

Difficulties in Parliament

If the ministry manages to reach an unlikely agreement with or without the social agents, it will then have to face dialogue with the parliamentary groups, since without support from Congress the quotas will not change. The positions expressed by each group anticipate difficulties in reaching an agreement. The main group in the chamber, the PP, has raised the flag against the increase in quotas proposed by the Government, despite the fact that it supported the rule agreed upon in 2022, which established the beginning of the system that aspired to lead to contributions for real income in 2032.

If the PP route does not prosper, the Government would be in the hands of the investiture majority. Junts said that the latest Social Security proposal “is just not sufficient” and that it consists of simply “holding the place”, which, in Junts’ opinion, “impoverishes the Catalan center class”, according to what Miriam Nogueras said on X (the old Twitter). This contrary position occurred before the slamming of the door on the investiture pact made official by the bases of his party, which further distances possible support for the Government.

The different get together that participated within the investiture and that offers the Government essentially the most issues, Podemos, advocates a contraction of quotas for individuals who earn the least, as an alternative of a freeze. These two companions are those who argue essentially the most with the Executive, however essentially the most collaborative ones don’t provide ensures both. The PNV didn’t just like the preliminary proposal and has criticized the ministry’s communication technique.