Thread: New Zealand adds 15% GST to (some) ebooks from today
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Old 10-01-2016, 01:22 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Tarana View Post
Yeah, but holy buckets, 15%!? Do they have a similar charge for paperbooks? I know the big objection to taxing ebooks is that they DIDN'T also tax dead tree books. They are the same content but treated differently due to format.
In the UK we pay 20% on ebooks and I think 6% on paperbacks, or are they free of tax? I'm not sure.
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