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Originally Posted by Billi
No, nobody would want Amazon to pay more than the law requires. "We" all would be more than happy if they would pay as much as the law requires. If a company founds a number of sub-companies with the only business to limit the tax burden then this is not covered by the law of France or Germany or whereever they do so.
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No; it's covered by EU law. Amazon sell ebooks from a company in Luxembourg because it makes them cheaper for their customers to pay 3% Luxembourg VAT rather than 20% UK VAT. Sure, that benefits Amazon by getting them more customers, but it also benefits us in the form of lower prices.
(EU law is changing in 2014 to prevent this, BTW.)