High taxes dragging Italy down, says industry minister Honest businesses in need of breaks

(ANSA) - Rimini, August 20 - Italy's high taxation is a deadweight to the economy that "must be rectified," Industry Minister Corrado Passera said at the annual Friendship Meeting held by the Catholic Comunione e Liberazione group in Rimini on Monday.The minister emphasized that "honest businesses" and citizens alike needed tax breaks and that more resources for welfare were essential.