View Single Post
Old 10-12-2009, 11:29 AM   #13
Patricia
Reader
Patricia ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Patricia ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Patricia ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Patricia ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Patricia ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Patricia ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Patricia ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Patricia ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Patricia ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Patricia ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Patricia ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Patricia's Avatar
 
Posts: 11,504
Karma: 8720163
Join Date: May 2007
Location: South Wales, UK
Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G
Quote:
Originally Posted by Juliette View Post
One point: maybe it's the slack Italian customs, but if I order a pbook from Amazon.com they will ask me a lot of money for shipping, but I won't pay a cent for taxes. So why should I be penalised because I get my text through the internet and just the internet?
I believe this is because the EU does not levy VAT on paper books.
However, ebooks are categorised as software, so are liable for VAT (unfortunately).
Patricia is offline   Reply With Quote