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Why does France's PEL sit awkwardly between savings product and tax product instead of being a timeless tax shelter you can open and forget?
People in France often inherit old advice about the PEL and assume the tax answer must still be simple and permanently favorable. Please explain why the date the plan was opened still matters, why the taxation of interest is not one-size-fits-all, and why the PEL works more like a rule-bound savings contract than a universal tax refuge.
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Why does France's LEP feel unusually generous only because access is screened by income and not because the product floats outside all policy discipline?
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