As France's parliament enters the final days of trying to agree on a belt-tightening budget for 2026, lawmakers are voting Friday on a wealth tax that left-wingers say will help reduce the country’s €44 billion debt pile and budget deficit. The government, meanwhile, is defending an alternative to such a broad levy on the ultra-rich.
Tensions in France's already deeply divided parliament have further crystallised over how to tax its wealthiest citizens.
