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PARIS, July 1, 2009. — A waiter carries bottles at a restaurant where prices were modified. France’s restaurant bills will be looking a little slimmer, thanks to a nearly fourfold drop in sales taxes. The measure, allowing a reduction of VAT, or value-added tax, from 19.6 percent to 5.5 percent, took effect July 1. The poster reads: “VAT lowered, our prices too.” Jacques Brinon, The Associated Press
