● The collaboration between the main business organizations and the Third Sector Platform highlights the interrelationship between these agents, who share purpose and objectives, with social value as the main lever of change.
● The Solidarity Company Box is included in the Corporation Tax, whose filing period is open from July 1 to 25, 2022, and marking it, with zero cost for companies, means allocating 0.7% of the proceeds to projects of social interest.
● In the current year, 186 million euros could be raised if all companies checked this box in the Corporate Income Tax, an amount that will be used to finance a wide variety of social, international cooperation and environmental projects, developed by entities of the Third Sector.
Madrid, 4 July 2022.
The Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE), the Spanish Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CEPYME), the Spanish Confederation of Associations of Young Entrepreneurs (CEAJE), the Association of Self-Employed Workers (ATA) and the Spanish Business Confederation of the Social Economy (CEPES) have renewed their commitment to the Third Sector Platform (PTS) by supporting the Casilla Empresa Solidaria in Corporation Tax campaign. By marking this option, companies can allocate 0.7% of the proceeds to finance projects of social interest managed by the Third Sector. This collaboration has been renewed with the aim of joining forces and publicizing the measure after starting, on July 1, the deadline for filing Corporation Tax, which will be open until July 25.
The agreement between the main business organizations in Spain and the Third Sector Platform highlights the interrelationship between the Third Sector and the business fabric. A sample of how these agents share purpose and objectives, with social value as the main lever of change and the common challenge of promoting sustainable investment to build a better world and jointly undertake the SDGs identified in the United Nations 2030 Agenda.
186 million euros is the estimated figure of total collection that could be reached in this year through the Solidarity Company Box, according to the data advanced by the Ministry of Finance for this year, if all the companies that present this tax marked it.
"Having one more year with the impulse and support of the main business organizations of our country in the campaign of the Solidarity Company Box is the most relevant support for the Third Sector and the perfect testimony of the existing commitment in this area. Spanish companies have in their hands the possibility of generating a great positive impact with a very simple gesture and at no cost, thus adding to the necessary social transformation, "says Luciano Poyato, president of the Third Sector Platform (PTS), promoter of this measure.
For her part, the president of the CEOE Foundation, Fátima Báñez, has valued "the enormous commitment of Spanish companies, which places them at the forefront of social action and that will surely be shown again with this Corporate Tax campaign, in which I encourage you to check the Solidarity Company Box, that costs nothing and is worth a lot. It is the box of hope and optimism, necessary to promote projects and grow in actions of solidarity and inclusion from civil society". Fátima Báñez recalled the importance of "continuing to add alliances from the company to multiply results".
For the Secretary General of CEPYME, Luis Aribayos, "the commitment of companies to social development and solidarity is a reality and a responsibility that SMEs assume in the daily exercise of their work, generating wealth and employment. From this social commitment, through this action, CEPYME joins its efforts to, together, continue to advance and lay the foundations for a future of economic and social progress".
The president of CEPES, Juan Antonio Pedreño, has pointed out that "most Social Economy companies have been supporting the Corporate Income Tax Solidarity Company Box for four years. In its DNA is the concern for the social, solidarity and for correcting social and territorial imbalances. The current socio-economic complexity makes this support for the Third Sector of Social Action essential more than ever".
On the other hand, the president of CEAJE, Fermín Albaladejo, highlights that "at a time when more and more stones are added to the backpack, not only of our entrepreneurs but of all of us who make up this society, it is time to give support and contribute our grain of sand. It is unthinkable not to support acts of solidarity like this, even more so when we know that there are so many Spaniards who are having a hard time."
On the other hand, the president of CEAJE, Fermín Albaladejo, highlights that "at a time when more and more stones are added to the backpack, not only of our entrepreneurs but of all of us who make up this society, it is time to give support and contribute our grain of sand. It is unthinkable not to support acts of solidarity like this, even more so when we know that there are so many Spaniards who are having a hard time."
For his part, the president of ATA, Lorenzo Amor, has assured that "we have spent two very complicated years. And not everything is resolved, complicated months are coming in which the recovery will depend on many external aspects. What we can do from home, we must do, and among those things is to support social entities, with solidarity acts like this, which we also remember, it does not cost us anything, it is to support each other. It is necessary."
Business and positive impact
Checking the Solidarity Company box is a free and altruistic decision, with zero cost for companies, with which they have the opportunity to be directly involved in egalitarian and inclusive social reconstruction, which benefits both the business sector and society.
The funds raised through the Corporate Tax Solidarity Company Box are aimed at financing social and environmental projects, developed by entities of the Third Sector, considered of general interest. A great diversity of projects that aim to advance towards a more just, egalitarian and inclusive society and that are aimed at the fight against poverty, social exclusion and inequality.
Thus, for example, projects of socio-health care and ecosocial impact, promotion of health and independent living, and inclusion in the community, fight against discrimination, coverage of educational needs, training and promotion of labor insertion, promotion of citizen security and prevention of crime, promotion of equal treatment, are financed. prevention of violence, protection of victims, promotion and defense of rights.
A measure in full growth
The measure, which has been present since the 2018 tax period, was born driven by the Third Sector Platform and, since then, has meant an injection of funds to attend to the 12.5 million people victims of poverty or social exclusion, 26.4% of the Spanish population. Figures that demand the involvement of the business sector and its collaboration with the Third Sector, whose work is essential to face the social and economic consequences of the post-pandemic reality and a global environment also affected by the war situation in Ukraine. The subsidized projects aim to end inequalities, poverty and the exclusion of vulnerable groups in our country.
In 2018, the amount collected exceeded 24 million euros, an amount that has been increasing in subsequent years, achieving a total of 33 and 36.6 million euros in 2019 and 2020, respectively. In view of the opening of a new tax period, it is estimated that 186 million euros could be raised if all companies checked this box.
The Solidarity Company Box can be checked during the period of presentation of the Corporation Tax open until July 25, and is currently available in two models of said tax: 200 and 220. It is included in the section ´other characters – social purposes´, specifically, in box 00073 (within model 200) or in 069 (in model 220).
About the Third Sector Platform
The Third Sector Platform (PTS) is a state-wide organization established to unite and expand the voice of the Third Sector in Spain. It defends, through a unitary voice, the rights and social interests of citizens, especially people in situations of poverty or at risk of exclusion.
Founded in January 2012, it is formed by nine of the most representative organizations in the field of social in Spain (Plataforma del Voluntariado de España (PVE); European Network for the Fight against Poverty and Social Exclusion in Spain (EAPN-ES); Platform of Social Action NGOs (POAS); Spanish Committee of Representatives of Persons with Disabilities (CERMI); Spanish Red Cross; Cáritas Española; National Organization of the Blind of Spain (ONCE); The Coordinator of Development Cooperation Organizations; and Children´s Platform); and eleven platforms and territorial tables. Currently, it represents about 28,000 entities in the social field.
The Third Sector Platform is the driving force behind the inclusion of the Solidarity Company Box in the Corporate Tax, present since the 2018 tax period. The companies that when presenting the declaration of this tax mark the Solidarity Company Box, a free gesture, with zero and altruistic cost, will be allocating 0.7% of the collection to finance projects of social interest managed by the Third Sector.
The contribution of the Third Sector to the Spanish economy represents 1.41% of the national GDP and represents 3.3% of employment, also having more than 2.7 million volunteers, and performing 46.2 million direct attention in 2021.
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