PRS 600 JUNK

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Yottie

Just shows how little the Government understands about software !

It's because of the EU's e-commerce VAT directive. This was brought in to ensure that music downloads didn't escape VAT, but, because of the way that it's worded (basically to include all downloads of electronic information) eBooks got caught up in it too.

[nick101]

Originally Posted by Yottie

Just shows how little the Government understands about software !

No it doesn't. It shows that:

1. The Vat-able and non-VAT-able categories were set before there were electronic versions of books
2. That although some ebook formats, especially pdf, have been around for quite a while, their predominant use has been in support of computer hardware and software
3. That it's very hard to get categorisation in something like VAT 100% right, especially when the environment changes as rapidly as this one does


It's more likely that ebooks are considered documentation than software.