The first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, has confirmed the position of her portfolio of Do not raise the exempt limit and that, unlike with the last increases, The new interprofessional minimum salary (SMI) should be taxed in the Income Tax of natural persons (IRPF). An issue that has sown new disputes within the government.
“The State will not raise more. These wages taxed last year. In any case, what the Government wants to prevent is to stop raising, that there is no decrease in public coffers, ”Montero clarified. In addition, he has reiterated the executive’s commitment to the SMI, valuing the “dignity” that the rise represents, having a press conference after a meeting with the CCOO leader in Andalusia.
“The Government, since President Sánchez is, has risen the minimum interprofessional salary by 61%. This means that we started from 735 euros per month in 14 payments, and we have passed, with the new proposal, to 1,184 euros. Beyond the figure, which is essential for Spanish homes, I want to value the dignity of the minimum wage increase. We are talking about complying with the European Charter, figure is not accidental, and it is the result of 60% of the average salary, ”he said.
Given this increase, the head of the Treasury, to whom the competence of the exemption in the IPRF (and not to the Yolanda Díaz Ministry of Labor) belongs, has defended that, currently, we are talking about “un decent salary for families that have more needs in the whole of Spain ”, in reference to the SMI, and that This assumes that it is no longer a “subsistence income”
Uploading the SMI also means “having rights and duties”
In relation to the latter, María Jesús Montero has stated that “with a minimum wage of 735 euros just the families could subsist. That is why the tax exemption made sense and was treated as a benefit. ” But that, now, “if we consider that the Government of Spain is pursuing is precisely that the SMI is not a subsistence salary, but in line with the basic needs that families have, with the desire that the agreements are located by Above, they will understand that This also means having rights and duties”
In reference to the statements of Yolanda Díaz, that he did not know about this taxation and learned by the media, he has threate Díaz will have read the Report of the Expert Committeethat advises the government and from which work extracted the proposal up of 4.4%, “From a a z and, therefore, know this situation”.
Hacienda insists that SMI taxation will only affect 20%
Likewise, Montero has insisted that 80% of the perceptors of the minimum interprofessional salary “will not have to do any taxation to public coffers.” In this regard, he explained that only “We are talking about 20% that are usually related to people without loads, that is, single people who usually have no children in charge”