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Originally Posted by HarryT
Can't be done because there's an EU wide agreement that "digital products" such as eBooks, computer software, etc, are taxed at the standard rate of VAT, and governments don't have an "opt-out" on it, whereas governments ARE free to set individual VAT rates for books (they are zero rated in the UK and, I think, at 6% in France, for example).
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5.5% here i believe, actually. (that half a point makes all the difference). the special book VAT rate not being applied to ebooks has been the subject of much discussion in the ebook forum lately as Arnaud Nourry (head of Hachette Books) used it as a justification for the (outrageously) high prices of ebooks in France, in an interview.