Well, that feels like a gross oversimplification. Other countries have tax brackets not too different from Italy's (eg. Germany), and Italy is not too high in the charts of cost of labour.
Economists would argue that it's a mixture of things: high taxes, low productivity, broken justice system, slow and intricate bureaucracy that does not really work, etc.
I bet that if Italy's economy would be based on high value-added industries (like France and Germany), less people would complain about high taxes.
Economists would argue that it's a mixture of things: high taxes, low productivity, broken justice system, slow and intricate bureaucracy that does not really work, etc.
I bet that if Italy's economy would be based on high value-added industries (like France and Germany), less people would complain about high taxes.