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Originally Posted by JSWolf
So how much did it cost the BPHs to get the EU to say that eBooks are not real books and to charge full VAT on them when in fact they are real books and should not have any more VAT charged then pBooks? This does smack of bribes.
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They didn't have to do anything because standard VAT is the default.
Back then the BPH thought ebooks were totally unimportant and maybe multi-media was the way ahead. I got club CDs back then which didn't have a booklet or sleeve notes, it was an ebooklet on the CD. Music downloads of course paid at the same VAT rate as CDs.
That being so, different VAT rate require a test - Italy has just chosen "has it an ISBN" which is a gallant try but easily gamed when the product is "really" music or a video.