
Tech start-ups and business leaders outraged by Socialist demands to impose levy on super-rich

Olivier Faure gives prime minister ultimatum to increase taxes on country’s wealthiest or face no-confidence vote

Consternation over pledge to continue tax raid on big companies and suspend pension reforms

Any sane discussion of changes that both right and left could agree on is being crowded out by tax populism

It is becoming harder to keep wealthy nomads and ordinary voters happy

Dire finances reflect pandemic and energy crisis largesse but also president’s early tax cuts