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Originally Posted by murraypaul
It is already against EU law. Luxembourg is not allowed to charge a 3% rate on eBooks, but are doing it anyway.
The EU law change is not to prevent charging 3%, but to make it so that VAT is charged at the rate of the consumer's country, not the base of operations.
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Can't see how it's illegal - they're just charging the same VAT as they do on physical books (something I consider extremely reasonable - just because they are HTML files inside an archive doesn't make them software). Estonia & Italy (at 4% for both physical and electronic), Hungary (5%), and a few others at similarily low rates do the same thing. Luxembourg is just the lowest.
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs...t_rates_en.pdf