Anyone who runs a business in Italy pays tax where they work, on the 16th of every month. Large groups can choose: Booking invoices from Amsterdam, Gucci used to invoice from Switzerland. In its first year the global minimum tax brought Italy 46 million and the Netherlands 449, while Italy’s digital services tax collected 637…
High rents push the people who work in Milan out to the suburbs, and a car costs too much to get back. The metro closes at around half past midnight every day and the suburban trains run every half hour. More rail, running later, also helps the people who can’t take the train. And to…
A graduate costs about 137,000 euros in schooling and university. In 2024, 25,000 left Italy and 4,000 came back. But leaving is the symptom: in Italy pay follows the degree more than what you can actually do, and the people who can really do things notice it quickly. Meanwhile, for the jobs that remain, we…