Thread: French Government Thinks Amazon Is Too Customer Friendly
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Old 06-28-2013, 11:45 PM   #90
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Originally Posted by JD Gumby View Post
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
UK has physical books VAT exempt (or 0%... end result same thing) but eBooks get hit with 20% VAT!!!
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