Social Monotributo: the social security of some 2.5 million people is at risk

The Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Petovello, marches decisively towards the elimination of the Social Monotributesomething that the government was unable to achieve through the last fiscal package that was approved in Congress. The way to do it will be the elimination of a subsidy that the portfolio was paying to the 585,000 beneficiaries of that segment.

This is the social work component of $6,900 that social self-employed workers were not paying and that within a month they should start to do so in case they re-registeras established by the portfolio in a Resolution published in the Official Gazette.

Although this is more than half a million headlines, it must be taken into account that On average, each of these people was including four other dependents, So it could be said that around 2.5 million people who currently have medical coverage through union social services will have to go to public hospitals within a month, with no other solution in sight.

Most of the Social self-employed workers are actually holders of social plans derived from Potenciar Trabajo, who can be seen in public squares and parks in municipalities throughout the country doing very low-skilled tasks.

Request for extension

These people, according to what they say Noelia Villafañe, head of Monotributista Associates of the Argentine Republic (MARA), have contracts in communes that are usually around $70,000 per month. They are people who are currently they do not pay their social security. Half of the capita is exempt by law and the other is subsidized by Human Capital. That is, out of a total of $13,800 that the beneficiary should pay today, his contribution is zero.

Petovello announced thatthat will stop paying that subsidy and the social self-employed workers who re-register will have to start paying $6,900 for each beneficiary of social work. Villafañe explains that “it is about people who work in the municipalities at 70,000 pesos.” “A woman with seven children would have to start paying $48,300 next month,” the leader explained to Ámbito.

Villafañe believes that these are people who They are located at the base of the social pyramid and will surely not be able to re-register. “At least 80% will not register again,” she estimated. The head of MARA asked Petovello to postpone the re-registration deadline until December 31 of this year.

The official view of the social single tax is negative

In the recitals of the resolution that appears published in the Official Gazette The government clearly warns that the objectives declared with this type of inclusion scheme, dintended primarily to formalize small businesses, was not achieved.

During the debate on the The government tried to repeal the Ley Bases and the Fiscal Package, but legislators reintroduced it. Even recently, when the AFIP re-regulated the new scales of the simplified regime, it forgot to include a fiscal component of $3,000.

The situation with the unions

According to dVillafañe states that the current government has wanted to eliminate the Monotributo Social because “there were social works that were rubber stamps that received the contributions” of Human Capital. Strictly speaking, this is a very large mass of people who would stop contributing to the system. Although it is also These are members who receive service for half of the contribution, which in some way impacts finances.s of the social works of the unions. DIn fact, no union has yet spoken out on the matter.