The French supreme court has cancelled two French Polynesian laws because the Tahitian language was used when they were debated in the assembly in Papeete last year.
The local laws were to tax phone numbers and profits made from selling houses or apartments.
In its ruling, the court found that Tahitian was used even after several assembly members complained about some members refusing to speak French.
The same French court had ruled last year that only French was allowed as an official language in the assembly.
A former French Polynesian vice-president, Jacqui Drollet, who spoke Tahitian during the debates last November, criticised the ruling.
