Pope Francis has put a further spotlight on the Italian health services' st...
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has put a further spotlight on the Italian health services’ struggle to cope with the coronavirus outbreak, by backing a prominent journalist’s complaint that tax dodgers were partly to blame.
He said he was “very impressed” by an article by journalist Fabio Fazio, who listed 15 lessons he learned from coronavirus crisis, and quoted one of them in its entirety. According to Italian Treasury figures last September, tax dodgers cost the country 109 billion euros on average each year between 2013 and 2015. Italy has the highest level of Value Added Tax evasion in the EU, the European Commission says.
Under pressure to curb the euro zone’s second-largest public debt, Italian governments have slashed funding for regions and in turn regional authorities have targeted health spending, one of the largest items on their own budget.
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