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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There is no positive way to look at this. The UK government did away with VAT for eBooks so they would be cheaper for consumers to purchase.
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Actually mostly typical Conservative PR because it's a small amount of tax and an anomaly as books are zero.
There was a long time fuss about the fact of essential female hygiene products having VAT. Far more serious.
Also see Jaffa Cake VAT case.
The biggest issue is the Big Publishers charging the SAME for ebooks as Supermarket Mass Market paperbacks. Also books going out of print. Even quite recent ones, yet the POD cost is about 1/4 of the typical retail book outside of the supermarket.