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UK plans higher bank taxes | Beginner Italian Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News

Freitag, 16. Oktober 2026 · 6 min

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Today's story: John Healey is preparing higher taxes for banks. You will hear it in Italian first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in Italian: John Healey prepara tasse più alte per le banche
() Welcome and today's headline
() More stories today
() Today's headline, slowly
() Bank profits
() Wanting something
() Money each year
() The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
linguawire.com/class/italian/a1/2026-10-16
TODAY'S ITALIAN TEXT
John Healey prepara tasse più alte per le banche
John Healey prepara un aumento della tassa speciale sui profitti delle banche.
Il bilancio è previsto per il 28 ottobre.
Il governo vuole ridurre il deficit.
Una possibilità è aumentare la tassa dal 3 per cento all'8 per cento.
Questa misura può portare più di 2 miliardi di sterline all'anno.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- vocabulary (profitti)
- vocabulary (previsto)
- verb (volere)
- numbers (dal 3 per cento all'8 per cento)
- vocabulary (all'anno)
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