The tax wedge eats up almost half of the salary of Italian workers: 47,6%, down by 1,1% over the last five years, a figure considerably higher than the average of OECD countries, where the weight of taxes and contributions on the pay slip it stops at a more humane 35,6% for a difference of exactly 12 percentage points. This was revealed by a report by the Parisian organization relating to 2012. The data concerns singles without children.
Eurispes, on the other hand, analyzes the international differences in social security benefit systems, underlining how Italy, which once had the most expensive pension system in the OECD area, has introduced "the best pension system for a more equitable future, juggling between the old salary system and one more in line with the historical period”, with the addition of collective and individual supplementary pensions, both optional, to the basic public pension.
