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Should VAT be cut on ebooks?

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There is a row building between EU member states over VAT after Luxembourg, the European home of Amazon, announced that it was cutting VAT for ebooks from 15 percent to 3 percent.

Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has the details and James Daunt, managing director of Waterstones, outlines why he thinks ebooks should get charged the same VAT as regular books.


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