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National Assembly rejected the revenue section of the 2027 budget. Crypto amendments, including stablecoin tax and self-custody wallet reporting, were removed.
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Assembly rejects crypto revenue
France’s National Assembly rejected the revenue section of the 2027 state budget late Wednesday, removing crypto-related amendments from the version of the bill sent to the Senate.
The Assembly rejected the revenue section by a vote of 458–0 at first reading, with two abstentions, according to the official voting record.
The government then sent the Senate the original budget text without the crypto-related amendments adopted by lawmakers, while the proposals could still be reintroduced in the Senate.
Faustine Fleuret, global head of public affairs at lending protocol Morpho, told Cointelegraph before the vote that rejection of the revenue section could “result in the rejection of the entire bill in the National Assembly, including provisions adopted by way of amendments.”
The Senate is scheduled to begin debating the finance bill on Nov. 20 and to examine the revenue section’s articles on Nov. 23, according to its schedule.
Stablecoin tax and reporting
Lawmakers had adopted an amendment on Oct. 16 that would have made gains from crypto-to-stablecoin conversions taxable, but the Assembly’s rejection of the revenue section removed it from the text heading to the Senate.
Lawmakers had also adopted an amendment requiring taxpayers to disclose self-custodied crypto holdings totaling at least 100,000 euros, with the threshold assessed on Dec. 31 of the tax year, but that requirement fell away with the rejected revenue section.
Another amendment would have increased penalties from 10,000 euros to 50,000 euros for crypto platforms failing to provide information requested by tax authorities, and that penalty increase also did not make it into the Senate-bound text.
bloomingbit said the lower house excluded regulatory amendments on stablecoin taxation and mandatory reporting for self-custody wallets from the bill to be submitted to the Senate.
Cointelegraph said the proposals could still be reintroduced in the Senate and would need to survive the remaining budget process to become law.
Next steps in the Senate
The rejection shifted the next decision point to the Senate, where lawmakers could attempt to restore crypto-related language through amendments and negotiations. Crypto News said the Senate is scheduled to begin debating the finance bill on November 20, with the revenue section set for examination from November 23, when lawmakers could revisit the proposals. Crypto News also said the amendments could still return during the Senate’s examination of the budget, although they would need to secure parliamentary approval before becoming law.
KuCoin said the government would send the Senate the original budget bill without the amendments adopted by the Assembly, even as the crypto measures were not necessarily dead. KuCoin added that the proposals could be brought back in the Senate and would still have to clear the remainder of the budget process to become law.
