Texas Gov. Rick Perry told The Washington Examiner on Friday that Amazon won’t have to collect sales tax for the state of Texas; he will ask the state legislature to clarify the legal issue. This is only the latest part of an ongoing saga. Various states have been trying to get Amazon to collect sales [...]
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Texas blinked – Amazon won’t be collecting sales tax after all
February 14th, 2011 · 17 Comments · ebookstore news, opinion
UK Parliment push to lower tax on ebooks
January 27th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
There’s a growing movement in the UK House of Parliment to lower the tax on ebooks since VAT (Value Added Tax) was raised last month (from 17.5% to 20%). So far 42 MPs have signed on with Glasgow Labour MP Tom Harris to reduce the VAT on ebooks to that of paper books. The UK [...]
France to delay tax cut on ebooks until 2012
December 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
The Bookseller are reporting: The cut in VAT on unenriched ebooks from 19.6% to 5.5% in France will almost certainly be postponed for a year from 1st January 2011 to 2012. An all party committee of members of parliament from both houses agreed during a meeting on Monday to iron out differences over the 2011 [...]
Have Amazon dropped the Whispernet tax?
November 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
I’ve heard an interesting report from an Australian tech blogger I know. Amazon appear to have removed the $2 surcharge on ebooks sold in the Australian Kindle Store. FYI: In most of the countries where Amazon sell ebooks, they charge an extra $2. This money is used to pay the local cell phone provider for [...]
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