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12-03-2014, 11:48 AM | #47 | |
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I see no way a small business like a minor self-published author could or should be expected to deal with that sort of complexity. /JB |
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12-03-2014, 11:52 AM | #48 |
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I think that mr ploppy's point was that what Amazon were doing via Luxembourg when selling a limited license to read a book was no different that using a VPN while paying for said license. You may be able to come up with some minor distinction, but it is a valid point of view.
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Consider the attempts of the US Federal Government to stop Americans using offshore internet gambling sites. Pressure on associates that are EU resident may be possible I bought Lois Bujold's _Memory_ from Fictionwise in December 2003 and they added VAT, though this didn't last long. |
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For the future, each Kindle store will charge the same price based on the VAT rate in its principal sales area and the Authors will gain or lose for any states with different rates. Announcement: EU VAT Changes – KDP Impact https://kdp.amazon.com/community/ann.jspa?annID=646 So e-book sales from Amazon.co.uk will be priced for 20% UK VAT and sales in the Irish Republic will pay VAT at 23% and Amazon's take and the author royalties will be less. Sales from Amazon.de will be priced at the German 19% VAT with sales in Luxembourg (3% VAT) yielding that much more in Amazon's take and the author royalties . This may also let Amazon postpone the decision as which EU member state the customer is in until the download has occurred. |
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The likeliest outcome will be that KDP publishers will set their price based on the highest VAT and pocket the variation elsewhere.
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If that's the case, Luxemburg must be a very large country with all those massive international businesses who are based there.
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Nothing will happen to those because most of the government have money stashed away in them.
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12-03-2014, 01:45 PM | #56 |
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Most probably won't know about the different rates, but there will be a lot of rounding up to the nearest 50p. Charging weird amounts for things just makes you look amateur.
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Ebook prices are already pretty random. The last few books I've bought from Amazon have cost £4.82, £5.49, £3.71 and £5.14 respectively. All from major publishers. There may be more logic to it than meets the eye: for example £5.14 is £4.99 + 3% VAT.
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As to pricing and VAT you may look here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...ublishers.html Last edited by CommonReader; 12-03-2014 at 02:44 PM. |
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Exactly.
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I had a scary thought...
This new regime involves as tacit agreement by the vendor that they are doing business in the EU, and are subject to EU tax laws. What's to stop the EU (or any of the member countries) from passing a tax law that says that anyone doing business with EU customers have to pay a profit tax to that EU country. The profit tax doesn't even have to be proportional to the sales from that country. And of course, the write-off laws are different in every country. Imagine a Delaware based US company having to file a tax return in Delaware, the US, and twenty different European countries. |
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