Macron lawmaker wants 'rich list' study amid wealth tax unease

France's budget rapporteur on Thursday asked the government to spell out how much the rich stood to gain if a wealth tax was scrapped, as unease over President Emmanuel Macron's plan within his own party bubbles up. Joel Giraud, a lawmaker from Macron's Republic on the Move (LREM) party in charge of steering the 2018 budget bill through the lower house, sought details of how the wealthiest 1 percent would benefit. "In the light of the discussion of the 2018 budget law, it would be particularly useful for me to have a study of the impact of the tax and budget measures on the wealthiest French," Giraud said in a letter to Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, seen by Reuters.