The European Parliament have voted heavily in favour of amending the EC Directive 2006/112/EC, which is the leading law for VAT across Europe, to grant all Member States the right to treat electronically supplied publications in the same way as printed publications.

The approval was subject to the following:

With Brexit looming it remains to be seen if the UK will take any notice at all about what goes on in Europe from a VAT perspective, but for now, we are subject to any changes to the EC VAT Directive and we may see a change to the VAT rate on e-books before we leave.

Links

Colouring books: zero-rated for children not for adults

A VAT update: What's New? May 2017


 

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