Lower ZUS for companies can mean longer professional activity – DGP

Small entrepreneurs will not earn a state-guaranteed pension if they pay contributions from a base lower than the minimum wage, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily wrote.

On Monday, the government is to present proposals for changes in the rules for paying social security contributions by entrepreneurs. The premiums are to be lowered by approximately PLN 500 for SMEs that meet two criteria: they need to have revenues of up to PLN 10,000 and their income cannot exceed PLN 6,000 per month. Experts, however, alarm that the government is not saying everything.

It is the principle of proportionality on which the whole system is based. When calculating contribution periods, the months in which contributions were calculated from a base that is lower than the minimum salary are only partially taken into account, the newspaper noted.

“If an entrepreneur pays ‘preferential’ contributions for 20 years, he will have to work longer, even by 10 years, to achieve the minimum pension,” the daily wrote.

(Dziennik Gazeta Prawna)