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Originally Posted by Stormchild
@BearMountainBooks
No, you miss the point of my question. If as ProfCrash insists, there is a LAW that prevents selling electronic goods across borders how can Smashwords operate. I doubt there is such a law.
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I can't really answer that, although I know some interesting questions were posed over at Smashwords about the taxing, withholding and so on. Smashwords, so far as I know, does not apply the VAT and other taxes like Amazon does. I know Mark has blogged about tax issues (From the point of view of the author and the buyer/reader). But frankly I didn't pay much attention because it didn't affect me.
Whether there is an actual law about selling electronic files, that does sound off, but yanno with governments being what they are, nothing would surprise me.