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Costs have skyrocketed for the self-employed, but despite this, only 16.3% are considering layoffs in the coming months. It is one of the conclusions of the barometer carried out by the National Federation of Self-Employed Workers' Associations (ATA), which also shows how this increase in expenses, caused by inflation, taxes, contributions and the cost of materials, affects them. cousins. practically all (82.7% of the total). This situation has led 67% to have to raise prices. There are many fewer, 29%, who have been able to assume the increase in expenses and not touch prices. When analyzing the costs, it appears that two out of three have increased by almost 20% since 2022, and this despite an increase in turnover.
Have switched to real income contributions, according to ATA survey Almost half of the self-employed have dependent workers, and of this percentage, in the coming months of this year only 16.3% propose reducing the workforce, which Job Function Email Database contrasts with the vast majority, 67.3%, who plan to maintain it. and it is already a much lower percentage, 6.1%, which plans to increase it. These percentages of what they plan to do in the immediate future are somewhat less positive than those they have done in the last year, during which they have increased the workforce more than they have decreased it, although with a central core.

Who has kept it What the barometer also shows is a slowness in adapting to the new contribution system (RETA) that came into force on January 1, and which involves adapting the contribution to income, for which it is necessary to establish an estimate of the expected collection. In this way, only 15% of the self-employed surveyed claim to have communicated their income forecast for the coming months and thus adjust the quota to their real income. Half say they have not communicated it and 31% remain very disconcerted by the new listing and say they do not know whether or not they have made said communication.
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