Meloni Wants Another Cut to Italy’s Payroll Taxes in Next Budget

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s government wants to ease the burden on middle-class earnings with another giveaway in the coming year, according to the economics chief of her political party.

The prime minister aims to reduce the so-called tax wedge — the difference between what workers cost employers and what gets paid out to them — down to 33% for incomes between €28,000 ($31,420) and €60,000, Marco Osnato said in an interview in Rome on Wednesday.

“We’ve been trying to give purchasing power back to Italian families,” said the lawmaker who is in charge of economic policy for the Fratelli ...