Income Tax: for equal income, a self-employed person pays $ 724,000 a year, and an employee pays $ 0

Officials ’concern to relieve income tax pressure began with workers in a dependency relationship and seems to continue with monotributists. Freelancers are currently on the waiting list but so far no plan has emerged for them.

The numbers on the difference in deal versus Profit are dull.

Tax specialist Florencia Fernández Sabella outlines this panorama:

A paid what you will receive during the year 3,365,000 pesos will no longer pay Income. This is because he received five salaries of $ 225,000 up to and including May, $ 280,000 between June and December and two full half bonuses that add up to $ 280,000.

Bagkos, a self-employed worker which charges $ 3,365,000 for the full year will pay at the end of the fiscal year $ 724,974 peso for income tax, sum equivalent to 22% of invoiced revenue.

Sa monotributist who invoices for the same amount as the self-employed person, will pay $ 177,940, 5% of your income. This figure, of course, was calculated before the idea of ​​†‹вЂ‹ raising the charge ceilings of all categories was known.

The differences in favor of workers in a dependency relationship become greater. There are those who argue here that the self-employed, smart in this scenario, usually underbill your income. Of course, the differences between the self-employed and employees in a dependency relationship are weakened when the employee exceeds the non-taxable minimum, because in a few pesos he has already entered the maximum rate of 35%.

“The Income Tax Law always gives the employee additional protection against the self-employed, they were never treated equally. But the problem is that these measures, which so far only favor employees in a dependency relationship, what they are doing are increasing inequality to a point where the difference becomes ridiculous, ”he stressed. by Fernández Sabella.

“As always, the tax system in Argentina continues to work based on patches trying to fix the shortcomings that should be corrected from the base. This is why by providing benefits to employees in a dependency relationship, people who, as autonomous or monotributists, ultimately have no taxation capacity other than the employee, are put in an unfavorable situation, “finishing specialist.

Freelancers try to avoid anything that could be categorized as freelancers. And that shows in the numbers of the Ministry of Labor. From the highest 429,000 registered in the general regime observed in September 2013, it dropped to 375,000 in January 2021. Now they are at 385,000.