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Originally Posted by Rizla
The method the EU has used to apply tax to Amazon is of course absurd. Treating tiny online retailers with the same taxation scheme is idiotic. Shame.
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It has provided a level playing-field. You've been going on for years about how unfair it is that Amazon are treated differently to small businesses, and now you seem to be complaining how unfair it is that Amazon are being treated the
same as small business
. You're a difficult man to please.
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One thing I'm not clear about is whether this "tax" only relates to digital products. Does this mean that Amazon will only have to charge higher rate VAT on e-books and music, but not on physical products?
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Physical goods are
already charged at the buyer's VAT rate (provided that the seller is VAT-registered in the buyer's country). This law brings digital goods in line with physical ones.