OECD: in Italy growing gap between rich and poor – Fanpage

Although Italy is among the richest countries in the world with an average per capita income for households amounted to $ 24,724 to ‘year, in our country there is a growing gap between the richest and slice the poorest n terms of wealth available. It supports the latest OECD report, which analyzes in depth the various economies of the member countries by assessing the pros and cons. According to the study it in Italy “there is a significant gap between the richest and the poorest” because “The richest 20% of the population earns almost six times more than the poorest 20%.” Negative in general for Italian families also report on the debt because according to the OECD, in 2012, Italian household debt rose to 94.2% of disposable income. A percentage that had a dramatic surge in the last decade when you consider that in 2000 the figure stood at just below 60%. As the study points out, at the same time there has been a sharp decline in the economy, fell to 3.6% of disposable income in 2012, compared with about 10% in 2006.

A to weigh on household income it is the employment situation of Country but also the weight of taxes. In fact, Italy is the fourth country in the OECD, behind only Ireland, Greece and Slovakia, for a percentage of long-term unemployed, ie people who can not find work a year or more, of the total unemployed. Also according to the OECD data, this would be a situation created by the economic crisis since 2007 to 2013 in our country the proportion of long-term unemployed in the total number of unemployed has risen by 45% to nearly 60%.

As for tax revenues , however, in 2011 amounted to 950 billion dollars, more than twice the OECD average. Most taxes in Italy is represented by contributions to social security (31.2%), and taxes on income and profits (26.8%), while taxes on goods and services account for only 26.1 % of tax revenues Italian. Quite the contrary in the OECD average this past constitute 32.9% of taxes followed at some distance by the contributions to social security.

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