Gains: the three points that the opposition asks to discuss about Sergio Massa's project

Jasmine Bullorini

02/10/2021 12:16

• Clarín.com

• Politics

Updated 02/10/2021 12:18 PM

The project to raise the Profit floor has a green light secured in the Deputies.

Together for Change - the main opposition in Congress - did not take long to advance its accompaniment, as did the minor interblocks.

However, they

will ask to discuss at least three points

: the inclusion of the self-employed, the update mechanism and the situation of retirees.

The text presented by the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Massa, establishes that dependent workers who earn up to $ 150,000 gross and retirees who receive up to eight minimum salaries, will not pay earnings.

The benefit would reach 1,200,000 people.

"The main issue that we ask is that of the self-employed. Today they have a non-taxable minimum that is around $ 50 thousand per month when that of the salaried workers of $ 74 thousand and now it will rise to $ 150 thousand

. If we do not touch the minimum of the the self-employed, the disparity would also triple,

"

PRO deputy Luciano Laspina

assured

Clarín

, who considered it to be" marked discrimination. "

"It is taken for granted that the self-employed person is a professional or has other training. But if they have the same income, there should not be so much difference to the salaried worker. Furthermore, the self-employed person does not have compensation if they lose their job," he added.

It is estimated that there are 500 thousand freelancers and 10 million employees.

But from the ruling party they rule out addressing the issue now.

"Self-employed and monotributistas will be separate laws, at another time"

, they point out.

Another point that both a sector of Together for Change and the Federal interblock, led by Mendoza's José Luis Ramón, want to discuss is the updating mechanism.

They argue that

the salary adjustment is not enough and that inflation must be taken into account.

"It is a tax that is always out of date, due to the highly inflationary context of Argentina. In fact, a nominal value was set so that 1 out of every ten pays and ended up paying almost 25% of salaried workers,"

the radical legislator

told

Clarín

Alejandro Cacace.

For this reason, they will propose that instead of the Average Taxable Remuneration of Stable Workers (RIPTE), the Consumer Price Index (CPI) be used.

Ramón expressed himself in a similar line.

"We support this project, it is part of our campaign proposal as well.

The only thing that makes us noise is the lack of automatic updating

. The RIPTE may depend on the decision of some who decide not to adjust it. The reality is that salaries three years ago They are coming back. That is the main detail to raise, "he told

Clarín.

On the other hand, a discussion is expected around retirees.

In the Earnings law it was stipulated that they would pay.

But there are debates about whether retirement is a substitute for salary and whether a person who already paid the salary should, or not, pay Earnings.

The Supreme Court ruled in the Garcia ruling that vulnerable retirees would not pay, and as a result, Congress ordered during the Mauricio Macri government that only those who earn more than six minimum pensions would pay.

Massa's project raises that floor to eight minimum pensions.

But in Together for Change, one sector wants to argue that point.

"The Federal Chamber of Social Security declared the payment of earnings to retirees unconstitutional, the Court did not rule and the ruling was final. The reality is that today there is a disparity of cases, because many of those who resorted to Justice and they have favorable rulings, they do not pay and others do.

The most grotesque case is that of Cristina Kirchner, who charges 100 minimum pensions and does not pay earnings, "

Cacace pointed out and insisted

:

" We must give a clearer framework. "

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