Thread: Equal rules for taxing e-books, e-newspapers and their printed equivalents
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Old 12-01-2016, 04:26 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea View Post
The European commission has finally woken up and are now working on new laws regarding the VAT rules for ebooks (among others).

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-4010_en.htm

The relevant part:




Let's hope this will pass soon and our relevant governments implement it it quickly!
Now watch the lawyers make lots of money on lawsuits to define what is a "newspaper" or ebook.

I can see that Amazon may have a problem with their online reading subscriptions or even the websites that charge money for reading. Then, again, are the cloud downloading sites selling hi-speed downloading and file storage also selling "ebooks". Aren't user manuals an ebook that is downloaded for free from the manufacturer?
Mangas/comics are also ebooks. Would a provider of ebooks need to provide proof that they didn't go beyond the revenue limit?

I expect that one day we will be taxed for the CO2 that we send into the air unless we are no longer living.
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