The president of ATA and vice-president of the CEOE, Lorenzo Amor, has stated this Friday that PP, Vox and Junts will try to block through amendments in Congress the Government's "sablazo" to corporate self-employed individuals and collaborating family members, whose 2026 exercise fee has been increased by 135 euros per month, which amounts to 1,620 euros per year.
Amor, in statements to Telecinco collected by Europa Press, has wanted to send a message of calm to the self-employed affected by this increase in fees, stressing that ATA is already working with the different Parliamentary Groups to try to reverse this situation.
The rising cost of fees for corporate self-employed and collaborating family members stems from the Government's decision to raise their minimum contribution base by 42%, which goes from 1,000 to 1,424 euros per month.
In this vein, Amor has denounced that many of the affected self-employed, who represent one in three self-employed workers, "have not found out" about this increase, since, provisionally, the Social Security allows them to continue with the minimum base of 1,000 euros, so that, for now, they continue paying the same fee.
"But within a year and a half, these self-employed individuals are going to be hit with a hefty charge of 1,620 euros," the president of ATA has warned. It will be then, around the end of 2027 and beginning of 2028, when the regularization of the fees corresponding to the 2026 fiscal year will be carried out and they will be required to pay the difference between the fee calculated on the minimum base of 1,000 euros and the one that would correspond to the new base of 1,424 euros.
"This is a full-blown rip-off and a deception to the self-employed (...) The Government agreed and committed to freeze the quotas and we have been surprised, this year, that it has not frozen the quotas for one out of every three self-employed workers," Amor reiterated.
The president of ATA has specified that, in the case of collaborating family members, 70% of the people affected by this increase in fees are women, mostly over 50 years old and linked to the rural environment.
According to ATA's calculations, if the order that raises the minimum bases of corporate and collaborating self-employed individuals is not modified, situations could arise such as that of a family business in which the main self-employed individual maintains an average base of 1,000 euros (the one declared by 60% of self-employed individuals) and their collaborating spouse, who does not appear as the owner, has a base of 1,424 euros per month. In that scenario, while the main self-employed individual would pay a fee of 300 euros per month, the collaborating self-employed individual would have to pay 435 euros per month.