The unions Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) and UGT (General Workers Union) They have not been left with a crossed arms before the controversy due to taxation to the Treasury of the New SMI (Interprofessional minimum salary). While the organization led by Pepe Álvarez has already requested a meeting with the Ministry of Finance of María Jesús Montero, that of Unai Sordo has made clear its position during a press conference in which they presented a report on the agency.
In this sense, and answering questions from Newsstrobajothe Secretary of Public Policies and Social Protection of the Union, Carlos Bravo, has assured that “It is no problem” that who charges the minimum interprofessional salary Have to make the income statement, as is the case with IMV beneficiaries (minimum vital income) and unemployment subsidies.
“It is not a problem having to make the income statement, what is problematic is that the available income of those who receive the SMI does not have is up of 50 euros, and this has different solutions and it is the Government of Spain to which it corresponds to put on the table which of them is the one that will address ”.
SMI’s increase up to 1,184 euros per month cannot be “diluted”
Before the controversy arising from the taxation or not from the SMI to the Treasurywhere even the president of the Government has entered, Pedro Sánchez, Bravo has clarified that it cannot be that a increase in this minimum wage at 50 euros more a month is “diluted” by the debate on his taxation.
“It seems to us that it is to divert the shot of what the central element should be” and has appealed to the government to “take the initiative to look for any of the possible solutions, because there are several, to be able to address that net growth of 50 euros for person”.
For Bravo, the problem is to focus on the wrong point. The SMI increase will benefit more than 2 million workers who will help to face the cost of life better, with the expenses involved in high inflation in Spain.
The debate “is little understandable” when talking about progressivism
The important agreement reached between the CCOO and UGT unions at the social dialogue table (from which the employer was collected) is historical, and would be “a deep error” that this rise is in the background before the debate on taxation in IRPF .
“Building the debate that people are outside the income statement is bad debate in progressive terms. A debate that is not very understandable. ” All this thread that whoever charges both the minimum wage and the subsidies of the SEPE have to submit the rent.
“The fact that he is walking towards the universalization of the income statement that when talking about administrative procedures is nothing more than confirming a draft that has Tax authorities With everyone’s data, it is not a problem in terms of a progressive vision of the relationship with the Tax Administration. ”
If everyone presented this statement, he said, it would be facilitated that financial aid and protection measures could be channeled directly in the same personal income tax by the figure of “negative tax”
The expert committee did not debate the taxation of the SMI
Carlos Bravo has also highlighted, denying the Minister of Economy Carlos Body, who “does not know” that during the expert commission appointed the Ministry of Labor for the SMI rise It would discuss the taxation of the minimum income.
“In past years, the SMI increase is linked to an increase in the minimum level of exempt income in the IRPF statement. It has not been subject to debate or in the expert commission or at the social dialogue table and the fact that both things are mixing is a mistake. ”
Now, it has asked the Government for them to solve this controversy to ensure that workers who charge the minimum wage ensure 50 euros of net increase.
UGT asks for a meeting to María Jesús Montero
UGT secretary, Pepe Álvarez, has sent a letter to the First Vice President of the Government, María Jesús Monteroin which he asks for an “urgent” meeting with the unions and the employer to analyze the taxation of the SMI in the IRPF.
In this letter, remember that from the union a progressive and fair fiscal policy has been defended that organizes everyone’s contribution to the Public Treasury, but always according to their needs.
It is “essential” that the IPF progressivity does not penalize the lowest salary income, especially those who perceive the SMI.