Belgium cuts e-book VAT to 6%

12 June 2019

Effective from 1 April 2019, Belgium introduced a reduction on the VAT rate applicable to e-books from 21% to 6%.

This follows the EU Council’s proposal to allow EU member states to cut rates on electronic publications to match their printed equivalents. Please click here to read our previous update on this.

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