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Old 10-02-2014, 02:11 PM   #31
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I think Harry is right. Make the math for a book that costs 100 Euro netto, the price with 6% VAT is 106 Euro, with 21% is 121 Euro which gives a difference of 15 Euro.
Let the book cost 50 Euro netto you have a difference of 7,50 Euro and so on.
What do you think an USB stick cost if you buy for example 1000 of them? I would be very surprised if it was more than 1 Euro.
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I have no idea. But the cost for every single usb stick is an additional cost for the book seller for whom it makes no difference at which vat a book is sold as he is only booking the net prices.
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I have no idea. But the cost for every single usb stick is an additional cost for the book seller for whom it makes no difference at which vat a book is sold as he is only booking the net prices.
It is not only the booking of the net - it is a discount of 15% to the customer for the cost of a memory stick. A discount that does not cost much, but if it gives a competetive edge over a retailer not offering the stick - it will mean additional sales.
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Old 10-03-2014, 02:14 AM   #34
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I have no idea. But the cost for every single usb stick is an additional cost for the book seller for whom it makes no difference at which vat a book is sold as he is only booking the net prices.
I checked. The cheapest I could find, for the consumer market, is €4,00 (for a 4Gb stick). I doubt you'd pay that if you order by the dozens...

It's also a publisher that is trying to let the government see sense (hopeless cause, I admit) that it's stupid that ebooks have a 21% VAT...
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It's also a publisher that is trying to let the government see sense (hopeless cause, I admit) that it's stupid that ebooks have a 21% VAT...
It's not the government's fault. It's an EU-wide VAT directive that was originally brought in to ensure that VAT was charged on music downloads. Ebooks got caught in it as a side-effect.
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It's not the government's fault. It's an EU-wide VAT directive that was originally brought in to ensure that VAT was charged on music downloads. Ebooks got caught in it as a side-effect.
Sadly, we have a government that doesn't agitate against stupid rules in the EU but only follows them...
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Sadly, we have a government that doesn't agitate against stupid rules in the EU but only follows them...
National governments have no choice other than to abide by EU Directives. They agree to do so in the treaty they signed when they joined the EU.
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National governments have no choice other than to abide by EU Directives. They agree to do so in the treaty they signed when they joined the EU.
Tell that to France and Luxembourg! Granted, they're being taken to court over their decision, but it seems that the ECJ grinds extremely slowly.
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National governments have no choice other than to abide by EU Directives. They agree to do so in the treaty they signed when they joined the EU.
There's a difference between following a rule unquestionably or trying to find the edges of the ruling and maybe even get it changed...
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