Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes, exactly. Most ebook prices fell when Luxembourg reduced their ebook VAT rate from (I think it was) 16% to 3% a couple of years ago.
|
That does make sense, thanks.
What confused me was that
before Luxembourg changed their ebook VAT from 15% to 3%, Amazon
did charge that Luxembourg 15% VAT also from me, on Amazon.com, although our VAT was already 20% at the time - so I assumed they charged the Luxembourg VAT from all their EU customers also on Amazon.com.
In fact, they continued to charge 15% also for some time after that change (i.e. it never dropped to 3% on Amazon.com but it also wasn't country-specific).
It's only from this year or so (I think) that I noticed prices had gone up for me: again, it's easy to tell with the average self-published title, which went from the earlier usual $5.73 ($2.99 + $2 + 15% VAT) to $5.99 ($2.99 + $2 + 20% VAT) not long ago.
So it sounds like in effect they're just going to equalise the VAT policy for all EU customers regardless of whether they have a local site or not...