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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
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. |
Thanks for explaining it. That does seem to make sense.