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by derda 4829 days ago
So basically the only benefit you get for the fee is health care? Then its pretty expensive. Does it increase with income or is it a flat fee?

Can you work around the whole thing, if you make e.g. your wife (or father, or whoever) the owner of the company and hire yourself as CEO? So you would pay health care + other stuff as a percentage of your wage (which would be very low monthly + share of yearly profit).

I am asking extensively because I plan to spent a year in Spain in the near future. And while all this information is irrelevant to the stay (I am a student and will hopefully have set aside enough to spend the year without having to work on the side). But I really like to understand as much as possible on how the country works. :)

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Yes, it's a flat fee, it only increases if you want extra coverages (full pay on day 1 of sick leave, unenmployment, etc).

The mandatory minimum doesn't increase which income†, but since you are also paying towards your retirement, you can choose to pay more, if for example you are in your final working years, so that you get a better retirement. But I'm not thinking about that right now :)

I am not the right person to ask about these things, and I may be wrong, but I think the workaround you are suggesting would cost, in the best case, the same as being autónomo on your own. You'd be paying about 250 € in taxes for a worker with the minimum wage (758 € in 12 wages).

†: of course you will have to pay income tax later (annually if >=70% of your income is B2B, quarterly if not, so many random rules!).

Sounds like there are a ton of pitfalls running a company in Spain. Good luck in the tight economy!