The condition of Junts to approve the Government's anti-crisis RDL, which requires the Executive to incorporate among its measures, that self-employed individuals with an annual turnover of less than 80,000 euros be exempt from paying VAT, was already approved by the Congress of Deputies since October 2025.
It was through the motion resulting from an interpellation that the Popular Group presented, where the immediate transposition of the community directive on franchised VAT for self-employed individuals who invoice less than 85,000 million per year was literally requested, which should be applying since January 1, 2025.
That motion passed with sufficient support from the chamber, but with the vote against the Socialist Group and Sumar, which now decides to rectify and incorporate Junts' request, in exchange for the formation led by Carles Puigdemont supporting the RDL that is voted on this Thursday in the Congress of Deputies.
The popular party's motion requested, among other issues, to revise downwards the taxes paid by families and self-employed workers; the inflation adjustment of the Personal Income Tax to compensate for the loss of purchasing power derived from “cold progressivity”, the tax exemption of the SMI in the 2026 Personal Income Tax declaration; the non-application of the fee increase of up to 35% to self-employed workers in 2026 and, the immediate transposition of the community directive on franchised VAT for self-employed workers who invoice less than 85,000 euros per year, which should be applied from January 1, 2025.
The call of Bolaños
According to the spokesperson for Junts in Congress, Miriam Nogueras, it was last Thursday when the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, contacted their group to inform them that the Government will proceed to transpose the European directive which allows self-employed workers with a turnover of less than 85,000 euros to be exempt from paying VAT. Thus, this commitment would pave the way for Junts' "yes" to the anti-crisis royal decree, as that was the condition they had set to support it.
According to the Junts leader, Spain is the “only EU country” that still has not transposed this directive which her party considers “essential” to alleviate the situation of self-employed workers, reason why “the Commission has taken Spain to court.”
On this issue, Lorenzo Amor, president of the Association of Self-Employed Workers (ATA), has also reflected, criticizing that “the Government has been months without complying with the European directive on franchised VAT, turning its back on self-employed workers and small businesses, so that, as of today -he points out-, we are the only European country that does not apply it”.
For all this, "in December -he adds- from ATA, we denounced the Government before the European Commission. But Today -he points out-, and due to lack of parliamentary support in the decree of economic measures for the Iran War, the Government agrees with Junts to approve it immediately. Which we thank Junts for their support -he concludes-, but this Government once again demonstrates shell game tactics with the self-employed, since we have had to reach this situation for it to give in."
The Government recovers part of the PP's motion
The Popular Party has also reacted in a similar way. In this case, by publishing a post by president Alberto Núñez Feijóo, even collecting information published by Demócrata on October 22, 2026.
A news item where the PP requested through a motion to reduce self-employed contributions, and which was approved by the chamber with the vote against the PSOE and Sumar.
In energy matters, that motion, published in the Official Gazette of the Cortes Generales on October 30, 2025, also called for reviewing the internal structure of the electrical system to guarantee the independence and robustness of the nodes, avoiding cascading failures and collapses in the electrical system.
At the same time, they requested that a sufficient and stable generation capacity could be ensured, recognizing nuclear energy as essential, paralyzing the closure of nuclear power plants, promoting new facilities and fostering energy storage through hydroelectric infrastructures.
The populars also requested the guarantee of electricity supply to large industry, prioritizing the continuity of service. Likewise, they urged to reform "the current regulatory framework, eliminating the ideological bias of the PNIEC and adapting it to Spain's strategic needs, repealing Law 7/2021, of May 20, on climate change and energy transition and the policies derived from the European Green Pact, and suppressing the European emissions trading system to ensure affordable, stable, secure, and continuous supply".
Likewise, they demanded transparency from the system operator, Red Eléctrica, "forcing the periodic publication of available power, investment criteria, and allowing private participation in expansions and improvements of the transmission network when the operator does not act, in addition to, promoting the dismissal of the president of Red Eléctrica Española for her deficient management of the operator and for the responsibility she had in the great blackout of April 28".