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Title: EU court says ebooks aren’t books, must be subject to higher tax rates
Post by: HCK on March 05, 2015, 09:00:23 pm
EU court says ebooks aren’t books, must be subject to higher tax rates

Europe’s top court has declared that ebooks are ‘services’ rather than books, and that European countries are not allowed to give them the same favorable tax treatment as paper books. The reasoning, such as it is, is that ebooks cannot be used without a physical device, and ebooks are a service provided to those devices. […]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=367833&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />

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