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Practical manual for Income Tax 2020.

2. Contributions and contributions to social security mutual societies

In relation to the reduction of such contributions, the following assumptions, specific conditions and requirements must be taken into account:

Subjective requirements

  1. Professionals not integrated into any of the Social Security regimes .

    The amounts paid under insurance contracts entered into with social security mutual societies by professionals not integrated into any of the Social Security schemes, by their spouses and first-degree blood relatives, as well as by employees of the aforementioned mutual societies, are entitled to a reduction, in the part that is intended to cover the contingencies provided for in article 8.6 of the consolidated text of the Law on the Regulation of Pension Plans and Funds (retirement; total and permanent incapacity for work in the usual profession or absolute and permanent incapacity for any work, and severe disability; death of the participant or beneficiary and severe or great dependency of the participant), provided that said amounts have not been considered deductible expenses for determining the net income from economic activities.

    See, within Chapter 7, and in the " Expenses of the owner of the activity " the point "Specialties in the Personal Income Tax of the contributions to Social Security Mutual Societies of the entrepreneur or professional himself".

  2. Professionals or individual entrepreneurs integrated into any of the Social Security regimes .

    The amounts paid under insurance contracts entered into with social security mutual societies by professionals or individual entrepreneurs integrated into any of the Social Security regimes, by their spouses and first-degree blood relatives, as well as by the employees of the aforementioned mutual societies in the part that is intended to cover the contingencies mentioned in the previous paragraph, give the right to a reduction.

  3. Self-employed workers or worker partners .

    The amounts paid under insurance contracts entered into with mutual social security societies by employees or worker partners, including the promoter's contributions that have been attributed to them as work income, give the right to a reduction when they are made in accordance with the provisions of the First Additional Provision of the consolidated text of the Law on the Regulation of Pension Plans and Funds, relating to the protection of pension commitments with workers, including unemployment for the aforementioned worker partners.

    Likewise, the amounts paid under insurance contracts entered into with social security mutual societies established by the corresponding Professional Associations, by registered mutual members who are employees, by their spouses and first-degree blood relatives, as well as by workers of the aforementioned mutual societies, give the right to a reduction, provided that there is an agreement between the corresponding bodies of the mutual society that only allows benefits to be collected when the contingencies provided for in article 8.6 of the consolidated text of the Law on the Regulation of Pension Plans and Funds occur. These contingencies are discussed in letter A) above.

Objective requirements

The consolidated rights of mutual members may only be made effective in the cases provided for pension plans by article 8.8 of the aforementioned consolidated text of the Law on Regulation of Pension Plans and Funds (long-term unemployment, serious illness and from 2025 for contributions with 10 years of seniority).

Furthermore, as a consequence of the health crisis caused by Covid-19, the Twentieth Additional Provision of Royal Decree-Law 11/2020, of March 31, which adopts urgent complementary measures in the social and economic field to face Covid-19 (BOE of April 1) and article 23 of Royal Decree-Law 15/2020, of April 21, on urgent complementary measures to support the economy and employment (BOE of the 22nd), established exceptionally and exclusively during the period between March 14 and September 14, 2020, the possibility that pension plan participants could make effective their consolidated rights in certain cases of unemployment, cessation of activity or reduction in turnover; which are also applicable to social security mutual funds. Assumptions discussed in this Chapter, within the common rules applicable to contributions to social security systems, in the section on early disposition of consolidated rights .

The amounts received in these situations are subject to the tax regime established for pension plan benefits.