Denmark to abolish VAT on books in effort to get more people reading
Culture minister says government will propose ending the 25% rate, the highest in the world, in its budget bill
To get more people to read or to sell more books? All the people I know that like to read, read digital and say they don't want to go back to paper
Presumably ebooks will also no longer be subject to VAT?
Meanwhile Germany: Artificially preventing book stores from competing for lower prices.
Based.
I very much doubt that abolishing VAT would help as sellers usually don't pass on the VAT reduction to the price. That aside, I don't think the reason why people are supposedly reading less (if it's true?) has so much to do with the price.
