Italy govt has found money to avoid sales tax hike-PM <!-- no image --> <div>Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Monday his government had freed up the 23 billion euros ($25 billion) in funds needed to avoid a scheduled increase in the sales tax next year.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=ti_GS7xzPmw:jk09kJ9fGWw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=ti_GS7xzPmw:jk09kJ9fGWw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=ti_GS7xzPmw:jk09kJ9fGWw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=ti_GS7xzPmw:jk09kJ9fGWw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=ti_GS7xzPmw:jk09kJ9fGWw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/ti_GS7xzPmw" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters