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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Ebooks are required to pay VAT (20% iirc); paper books are not.
Unless that law gets changed, in the UK it isn't really a fair comparison.
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I contacted my mp to ask him to look into this anomaly. His reply was in essence that the uk government could not change this(even if they wanted to) as they are not allowed to as vat restrictions are part of the eu treaty. It would require eu approval. I don't know what to think of this. I just seems ridiculous that we are paying vat on a format that apart from other benefits is very environmentally friendly.