Legal & Fiscal System
- In France, in exceptional cases it is possible to marry a deceased person with the authorisation of the President of the Republic.
- France has the highest wealth tax of any European country.
- France is the only EU country to have all its V.A.T. rates with decimal fractions (19.6%, 5.5% or 2.1%). Only Britain and Ireland also use some rates with decimal fractions.
- In the town of Chateauneuf-du-Pape in Provence, a municipal law of 1954 prohibits flying saucers from landing within the borders of the municipality.
