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Originally Posted by avid01
Can I buy Kindle books from Amazon UK without having to pay UK VAT?
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No ebooks in the UK Kindle store have UK VAT (20%), instead they all have the Luxembourg reduced VAT rate (3%). It's hardly worth trying to avoid.
And since Amazon UK is only supposed to sell ebooks to the UK, I don't think that there is any way to avoid it.
This situation will change on 1st January 2015 when VAT will be charged at the rate of the location of the customer, not the supplier, for E-commerce services (which includes ebooks).
It's possible that the VAT rate will increase before that, as Luxembourg (& France) have been told to stop applying their reduced VAT rate to ebooks and other E-commerce services.