The vice president of the Government of Canary Islands and Minister of Economy, Industry, Commerce and Self-Employed, Manuel Domínguez, has requested this Wednesday the Government of Spain to withdraw the measure of raising the minimum base by 42% of Social Security contributions for corporate and collaborating self-employed workers.
A corporate self-employed person is a figure halfway between an individual entrepreneur and a company partner. Basically, it is that self-employed worker who has formed a commercial company (such as an SL) and owns its control or performs management functions.
The measure, he warned, “will mean an increase of up to 1,620 euros annually for thousands of self-employed workers and will affect about 60,000 Canarian self-employed”.
The vice president pointed out that this increase, which in practice translates into 135 euros more per month, “does not respond to the economic reality of the Canary Islands nor to the situation faced by thousands of small family businesses, self-employed workers and micro-enterprises that sustain a good part of the employment in the Islands.” In this regard, he stressed that “it is useless for us to approve decrees and aid if, on the other hand, the Government of Spain takes measures to collect from those who have the least, who are the self-employed.”
Domínguez also recalled that while the Government of the Canary Islands is “defending support measures for self-employment, such as the zero quota and other forms of fiscal and administrative relief, we now find that they are undermined by a unilateral decision by the State that goes in the opposite direction”. “It makes no sense for one hand to help while the other squeezes self-employed workers and families more,” he stated.
In his opinion, “raising the fees which, furthermore, is retroactive to January 1 of this year, is a bad economic decision, unjustified, untimely, and unfair, because with the current crisis situation in the Middle East it will unbalance their accounts at a time of great uncertainty”.