Press release of the Order of Lawyers and Notaries of the Republic of San Marino
The Board of Attorneys and Notaries represents the deep concentration for the provisions contained in the Bill “Reform of the social security system” submitted in these to the examination of the competent Council Commission and in particular for those freelance sector. In general, it cannot be overlooked that a summary examination of the articles already highlights profound criticalities, capable of affecting both the legitimate expectations of a future and prolonged sustainability of the social security system and, above all, its equilibrium in the medium and long term. In particular, the targeted interventions, focused only on the indiscriminate increase in contributions in the face of a concomitant generalized reduction in the expected pension treatment, as the only consequence must be that the pensioners of the future will very much be able to reach the god during work (dependent or self-employed) . Having totally disregarded dealing with – both the unavoidable only from the salary system (in an increasingly unsustainable perspective also for our demographic dynamics and in any case profoundly unfair for the correlated entails inequalities that necessarily transition) to the contribution system (citizens would see each other calculate the pension based on the contributions actually paid); – that the no longer postponable separation of assistance (the coverage should be remitted to general taxation) from social security (which should be self-financed with the compulsory contributions paid registered), to believe from now on that the intervention as formulated will result from all in effective and therefore unfairly oppressive for citizens where the huge sacrifices to be nominated reasonably uncorrelated with firm expectations of recovery. If the general structure of the project therefore leaves wide doubts of effectiveness, the provisions concerning freelancers and professional companies must at the same time be considered particularly reprehensible. In December of the year two thousand and twenty, the Great and General Council, with a plebiscite vote, approved the law n. 22/2020 which placed an action on a different year that prohibited only free self-employed workers then the reasons why today’s reform project (art. 24) in fact abjures both the rationale and the forecasts of any contributory nature, reintroducing anachronistic and unjust differences with respect to other types of companies. This position, as well as being reprehensible for being a source of unjust inequalities with respect to all other categories of companies, is even more unacceptable when it is considered that contrary to what the provision could lead to believe, lawyers and notaries, in particular, and Freelancers, in general, have been and have always been active contributors to the pension fund (i.e. they pay more than they receive), unlike all the other funds that have long been in deficit (so much so that every year the State must intervene to cover the deficit). The reasons that led, once again, to strike the category with unfairly oppressive provisions are therefore obscure, while at the same time the ambitions of the sectors that establish to create a deficit are not the recipients of any similar provision. At the end of resetting any unjustified claim in the bud, reiterated that the reform launched in 2011, which further determined a single fund for self-employed workers, was adopted with the total disagreement of the interested parties and for the sole purpose of using the assets accumulated by our fund, we reiterate the request to return to the autonomy of one’s own fund, thus assuming the burden of guaranteeing its sustainability. With regret we also observe that the very short time to analyze the device did not allow for the comparison that would have been necessary to formulate articulated and sustainable proposals for category change and at least to avoid unjust measures against the, as already noted, not determined by any need or technical reason.
Cs – OAN Board of Directors
Copyright ©