Why France’s New Wealth Tax Won’t Necessarily Target Your Crypto — Yet
France’s proposed “unproductive wealth” tax has raised eyebrows among crypto investors, but most won’t be affected. By lifting the taxable threshold to €2 million, the measure targets only the ultra-wealthy. Every day crypto holders will remain outside its reach.
Its real impact lies not in new tax burdens but in how France is redefining digital wealth within its broader fiscal policy.
France has advanced plans to include cryptocurrency in its revamped wealth tax, following lawmakers’ narrow approval of an amendment classifying digital assets as “unproductive wealth.”
Proposed by centrist deputy Jean-Paul Mattei, the…
