Italy must improve on taxes, jobs says OECD

(ANSA) - Paris, February 25 - The Organisation for Eonomic Cooperation and Development said Friday Italy must improve on taxes and jobs.
    In its Going for Growth report, the Paris-based ogrnaisation that Italy must "improve the efficiency of its fiscal structure, reducing distortions and incentives to evade (taxes), reducing elevated nominal rates of taxation and abolishing several fiscal costs".
    The OECD also said that "mobilising a wide range of policies to improve work opportunities for the unemployed and facilitating their return to work remains a priority for reforms" in Italy, given that "unemployment remains very high, especially for young people and for the long-term unemployed".
    The report was presented at the financial G20 in Shanghai.