We need to follow instructions. Output only
Then the article HTML. Need to rewrite the body text (the paragraphs) into natural, high-quality professional English. Also need to clean promotional lines. Let’s parse the original paragraphs (excluding list items, figure, etc.) to rewrite.
Original paragraphs (class=”font-sans scene:font-noto-sans…”):
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“France’s National Assembly Finance Committee voted this week to tax crypto holders who swap into stablecoins—tokens tied to a single official currency, such as the dollar or the euro—and to charge an exit tax on wealthy holders who move abroad.”
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“The votes may not matter much yet: on Friday the committee rejected the budget’s entire revenue section by 31 votes to 3, so the full Assembly starts from the government’s original text, without the crypto amendments.”
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“The committee’s amendments do not carry over to that text, so their backers would have to table them again for the floor debate that begins Oct. 13. Neither measure is law, and both still have to get through the rest of the legislative process.”
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“The stablecoin amendment, filed by Nicolas Sansu of the left-wing GDR group and 16 co-signers, goes after what the authors call “a hole in the legislation.” Today, swapping Bitcoin for a stablecoin triggers no tax in France, because the state only collects when gains are sold for regular money or spent.”
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“The text covers the electronic money tokens defined under MiCA, the EU’s crypto rulebook, a category that includes most stablecoins tied to a single currency. From Jan. 1, 2027, swapping into one would count as a sale, with the gain measured against what the holder originally paid.”
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“The amendment names no rate and defers to France’s flat tax, which rose to 31.4% on Jan. 1 after the 2026 social-security financing law lifted the social-charge portion from 17.2% to 18.6%. The authors insist they are not creating a new burden, only applying existing law to a case it missed.”
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“The authors say stablecoins can be perfectly ordinary investment vehicles, since they can pay for things at crypto service providers or buy other tokens, so the deferral on swapping into them is unjustified and lets the gain escape the flat tax.”
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“A second amendment from Sansu would extend France’s exit tax to crypto. That is a levy on gains you being

![block at beginning, then rewritten article HTML body text. Must remove promotional lines, “SEE ALSO” links, footer junk. Also must keep all media elements (images, iframe, etc.) unchanged and in original positions. Need to rewrite headline to unique, fresh, professional. Then rewrite the news story body text into natural, high-quality professional English. We need to keep HTML tags, but also ensure media tags remain exactly. Let’s identify media elements: There’s a with an and a . The img class includes many srcset and width/height attributes. Must keep exactly. There’s also a <img alt=”” loading=”lazy”… class=”shrink-0 rounded-full max-sm:h-[22px] max-sm:w-[22px]” style=”color:transparent” src=”https://coin-images.coingecko.com/coins/images/1/large/bitcoin.png?1696501400″/> (a small bitcoin icon). Must keep. There are some lines with etc, but they are part of UI elements like price, market data. Those seem like promotional or UI, not part of article body? The instructions: Remove promotional lines, “SEE ALSO” links, and footer junk. The price/value and market projections might be promotional UI. So we likely need to remove those elements that are not part of news story. Also the Daily Debrief Newsletter and its paragraph likely are promotional newsletter sign-up, thus remove. Also the with Bitcoin label etc maybe part of UI; likely promotional. So we should remove those. We need to keep the article body: The news story comprises paragraphs with tags describing the committee actions. Also list items () describing amendments. We need to ensure we preserve the with three list items (the amendments). Also the figure with image remains. Also need to keep the paragraph after the figure (the final paragraph) that continues article: “The Assembly adopted another crypto-inclusive tax…” that’s part of article? It describes another amendment, still news. That seems relevant. Also the final paragraph about floor debate dates. That also part of article. We must rewrite headline: Original: “French Committee Backs Stablecoin Swap Tax and Crypto Exit Tax, Then Rejects the Budget”. Need unique, fresh, professional. Maybe: “French Finance Committee Approves Taxes on Crypto Swaps and High‑Value Holdings, Rejects Budget”. But need professional and fresh. Let’s craft: “French Finance Committee Endorses Taxes on Crypto Swaps and Wealthy Holdings, Rejects Budget”. That is okay. But we need to output [TITLE]… then the headline? Actually [TITLE] block should contain the rewritten headline. The instruction: Output ONLY the requested [TITLE] block at the absolute beginning, followed immediately by the rewritten content. So [TITLE] block contains the headline (rewritten). Then immediately after that, the cleaned, rewritten article HTML body text. Thus we need: [TITLE]French Finance Committee Endorses Taxes on Crypto Swaps and Wealthy Holdings, Rejects Budget block at beginning, then rewritten article HTML body text. Must remove promotional lines, “SEE ALSO” links, footer junk. Also must keep all media elements (images, iframe, etc.) unchanged and in original positions. Need to rewrite headline to unique, fresh, professional. Then rewrite the news story body text into natural, high-quality professional English. We need to keep HTML tags, but also ensure media tags remain exactly. Let’s identify media elements: There’s a with an and a . The img class includes many srcset and width/height attributes. Must keep exactly. There’s also a <img alt=”” loading=”lazy”… class=”shrink-0 rounded-full max-sm:h-[22px] max-sm:w-[22px]” style=”color:transparent” src=”https://coin-images.coingecko.com/coins/images/1/large/bitcoin.png?1696501400″/> (a small bitcoin icon). Must keep. There are some lines with etc, but they are part of UI elements like price, market data. Those seem like promotional or UI, not part of article body? The instructions: Remove promotional lines, “SEE ALSO” links, and footer junk. The price/value and market projections might be promotional UI. So we likely need to remove those elements that are not part of news story. Also the Daily Debrief Newsletter and its paragraph likely are promotional newsletter sign-up, thus remove. Also the with Bitcoin label etc maybe part of UI; likely promotional. So we should remove those. We need to keep the article body: The news story comprises paragraphs with tags describing the committee actions. Also list items () describing amendments. We need to ensure we preserve the with three list items (the amendments). Also the figure with image remains. Also need to keep the paragraph after the figure (the final paragraph) that continues article: “The Assembly adopted another crypto-inclusive tax…” that’s part of article? It describes another amendment, still news. That seems relevant. Also the final paragraph about floor debate dates. That also part of article. We must rewrite headline: Original: “French Committee Backs Stablecoin Swap Tax and Crypto Exit Tax, Then Rejects the Budget”. Need unique, fresh, professional. Maybe: “French Finance Committee Approves Taxes on Crypto Swaps and High‑Value Holdings, Rejects Budget”. But need professional and fresh. Let’s craft: “French Finance Committee Endorses Taxes on Crypto Swaps and Wealthy Holdings, Rejects Budget”. That is okay. But we need to output [TITLE]… then the headline? Actually [TITLE] block should contain the rewritten headline. The instruction: Output ONLY the requested [TITLE] block at the absolute beginning, followed immediately by the rewritten content. So [TITLE] block contains the headline (rewritten). Then immediately after that, the cleaned, rewritten article HTML body text. Thus we need: [TITLE]French Finance Committee Endorses Taxes on Crypto Swaps and Wealthy Holdings, Rejects Budget](https://i0.wp.com/cdn.decrypt.co/resize/1024/height/512/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Paris-gID_7.jpg?w=1024&resize=1024,1024&ssl=1)