Thread: Buying an Ebook: In the real world
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Old 01-18-2010, 06:14 AM   #32
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The same publisher (US) would love to make the extra sale!
Everything I've seen from online retailers is that the pressure to define location of sale for ebooks differently from location of sale for pbooks is coming from domestic, not foreign, publishers, and that they're using the threat of cutting off sellers who don't play by their rules to ram this through.

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A final problem is tax.
IANAL, and I am especially not a tax lawyer, and tax laws will vary wildly from country to country, but my understanding on this (having once asked a Canadian tax lawyer about it) is that, generally speaking, if the tax wasn't collected at source it's your responsibility to go to your local tax office, declare your purchase of untaxed goods or services, and pay the appropriate tax. In the real world nobody actually does, and I suspect that if you walked into your local tax office to declare that you'd just bought a hundred Euro worth of electronic books from Amazon and would like to pay your VAT now, please, they'd look at you as if you had grown a second head, but that's my (layman's, incomplete, not necessarily applicable in your region, void where prohibited by law, for external use only, if rash continues consult a physician) take on it.
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