Italy’s Bersani Pushes for Payroll Tax Cut Financed by Wealthy

Pier Luigi Bersani, the front-runner in next month’s Italian election, is pushing for a payroll-tax cut and would finance it by raising taxes on the rich and cracking down on fiscal evasion.

“There is room to finance a reduction of these burdens,” Bersani said late yesterday in an interview televised on Canale 5’s “Italy Asks” program. “A redistribution within the fiscal system is possible; something progressive can be done.”