UK and many other EU e-book prices to rise from 1st January 2015
At present a Kindle store e-book sold in the EU is 'supplied' by Amazon Media EU S.à r.l. in Luxembourg and so in accordance with the current EU VAT rules pays Luxembourg VAT at 3% (may be different in Sweden).
From 1st January 2015 Amazon must use the VAT rate for the customer's location (as for mail order) so a UK customer will be charged VAT at 20% and so the bill will be 16.5 % more.
So buy before the year end, or buy from Baen.
Diane Duane complained about the uncertainties and impact on small
businesses.
http://dianeduane.com/outofambit/201...-cyber-monday/
== more detail and links
After /5 years/ of preparation the EU has mandated that VAT (think sales tax) be charged on all EU internet purchases of ‘Electronically supplied services’ such as downloads, based on the VAT rate appropriate to the customer’s location, just like mail order physical goods (currently supplier location is used).
From 1st January 2015
Which means they had to define what was to happen if you bought a ringtone using a mobile or hotspot from a hotel, plane, train or ship.
The final regulation came out a year ago
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/...01:0007:EN:PDF
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs...es_2015_en.pdf
I wonder if there was any difference between pay for e-book and be given download link (Baen, Diane Duane) and buy e-book immediate download (Kindle store) when you were on holiday or working in a different EU country.
http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/lea...stop-shop.html
http://onemanbandaccounting.co.uk/eu-vat-changes-2015/
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...-one-stop-shop
http://www.clarejosa.com/articles/fr...vat-moss-mess/
http://womenonthebusinessstage.co.uk...uct-suppliers/
http://www.theguardian.com/small-bus...cro-businesses