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Originally Posted by murraypaul
We've been through this several times. You do not understand how UK VAT works, it is not like US sales tax, it is not added at checkout by the retailer.
Amazon did reduce prices for books where they set the price.
Amazon could not change the prices for Agency eBooks to take account of the VAT change, only the publishers could.
There is nothing illegal about the publishers choosing to reduce their prices or not.
From Amazon's announcement at the time:
Exactly the same thing happened at Kobo, but of course you ignore that to attack Amazon. |
If the VAT was reduced by the government to reduce the prices and that isn't happening, they should just put the VAT back to what it was. I doubt they reduced the VAT solely to put more money into the publishers' pockets. Well, maybe I'm wrong about that last part.