Montero and Díaz break the negotiations and the Treasury plans to veto the proposal to add against the taxation of the minimum wage

The Ministries of Labor and Finance have broken the negotiation so that the minimal interprofessional salary perceptors (SMI) remain without paying IRPF before the impossibility of reaching an agreement. The second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, has affirmed that around the 10:00 pm on Thursday Montero has risen from the table in which he was negotiating compensation for SMI perceptors.

“Yesterday at 10 at night it was negotiating, so that citizens understand it, but she has risen from that table, that is, has given the instruction to break the negotiations “, The Minister of Labor has underlined in a Telecinco interview. Díaz has also affirmed that he sent the First Vice President and Minister of Finance up to five proposals to try to reach an agreement that does not harm SMI perceptors for the decision of the Treasury to pay taxes in the IRPF.

“The aroma she oozes is that she (Montero) It seems to him that the minimum wage is very high “Díaz has criticized. Sources from the Ministry of Finance do not rule out Present this morning the budget veto Against the initiatives to add, pp and we can prevent these perceptors from taxing. This Friday ends the term granted by the law to the Government to veto the processing of the three propositions of law (one to add, another of the PP and a third of Podemos) that intend to reverse the decision of the Treasury to force those who charge the minimum salary to pay IRPF.

This would imply one unpublished collision between the two wings of the coalitionsince it would be the first time that one part of the government would try to prevent the other from processed by a law in Congress.

Although the negotiation has been open all week, he ran out in recent hours and this Friday has broken. PSOE and Sumar have agreed to exempt these workers from taxes in 2025, but They have failed to agree on what should happen from next year. In any case, it would not be the end of the road: at the meeting that will be held by the Table of the Lower House on April 8Adding would have the option of combining strength with the PP to raise this veto, something that has already threatened to do and that would mean a new clash with the PSOE that, in turn, threatens to bring the eventual decision of the table to the Constitutional Court.

The conflict, in reality, began just over a month ago, but until this last week the Ministry led by María Jesús Montero has not agreed to try to redirect it through a negotiation with that of work, which Yolanda Díaz commands. Initially, Montero refused to reduce his decision that the minimal wage notice began to pay IRPF – about 22 euros per month, of the 50 euros per month that this indicator rose last February – but in recent days he has yielded and has opened to implement a Deduction for these workers That, in practice, it would allow them to recover 100% of the paid when making the income statement.

However, the Treasury wants this mechanism to be in force for only one year, 2025, and that, from there, the minimum wage perceptors pay normally. And work disagree: for Yolanda Díaz, if the Treasury does not raise the minimum of income exempt from paying IRPF, at least it should ensure that the Tax Agency returned them the total of the paid for IRPF Until the minimum salary is equivalent to 60% of the Spanish average salary. And that percentage must be calculated, as Díaz herself claimed Thursday, in net and non -gross terms, that is, once taxes have been discounted.

That is the key to the difference that right now separates the Treasury and work and is blocking the agreement. Montero considers that the minimum wage – which, after the last rise, is 1,184 euros in 14 payments – already equals 60% of the average Spanish salary. According to the data of the Salary Structure Survey of the National Institute of Statistics (INE), it is thus, since this average is equivalent to 1,924 euros monthly gross. But Díaz differs: this Thursday argued that the account must be done by taking as reference the minimum net salary, which is the one that the worker really perceives in his payroll.