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Originally Posted by HarryT
This change in EU law was brought in precisely because large multinational companies like Amazon have been able to avoid paying taxes by basing themselves in the EU country with the lowest VAT rate (Luxumbourg).
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...and in the process it's looking like it will drive out of the EU market a good chunk of smaller competitors, like authors and bands selling direct from their websites, forcing them to go through aggregators like... Amazon.
Big players always have the resources to adapt and it is the small guys that get steamrollered.