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Originally Posted by HarryT
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?
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There was a claim in the Guardian to that effect but that newspaper isn't much on tax expertise.
For the future, each Kindle store will charge the same price based on the VAT rate in its principal sales area and the Authors will gain or lose for any states with different rates.
Announcement: EU VAT Changes – KDP Impact
https://kdp.amazon.com/community/ann.jspa?annID=646
So e-book sales from Amazon.co.uk will be priced for 20% UK VAT and sales in the Irish Republic will pay VAT at 23% and Amazon's take and the author royalties will be less.
Sales from Amazon.de will be priced at the German 19% VAT with sales in Luxembourg (3% VAT) yielding that much more in Amazon's take and the author royalties .
This may also let Amazon postpone the decision as which EU member state the customer is in until the download has occurred.