The rich are getting richer while the middle class is losing ground. Is a wealth tax the answer? Advocates argue that wealth provides advantages not […]
1/2026
Taxes, Taxes, Taxes
How to Ease the Tax Burden and Make the System Fairer
No one enjoys paying taxes, even though they are essential to keeping the state running – especially when the system feels opaque and unfair. That’s why politicians often promise tax cuts they struggle to deliver. Yet there is room for improvement: in Italy, smaller-scale tax evasion could be curbed by encouraging compliance through incentives rather than relying mainly on enforcement, while the system could be made more balanced by taxing wealth more effectively, reforming inheritance taxes, and updating property valuations.
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