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Originally Posted by CommonReader
I read somewhere that Amazon was forcing the publishers to price their books as if Amazon had to levy the rate of VAT in the UK and other places for quite a while already.
In places with fixed book prices like Germany Amazon was selling the books at the same price as other retailers. You are kindly invited to guess who was pocketing the difference between 19% VAT in Germany and 3% VAT in Luxembourg.
This regulation was well overdue to stop sweetheart deals as Amazon did with Luxembourg.
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That sounds extremely improbable to me. It would be illegal to claim to be charging 19% VAT while only in fact charging 3%. Pretty much all of Amazon's ebook prices fell in the UK when they moved their operation to Luxembourg.
Do you have any sort of link to support what you've said?