30 September 2016
At the beginning of September the European Commission confirmed plans to bring forward legislation to permit reduced VAT rates on e-books.
It is hoped that the proposed legislation will be published in October 2016 which could then mean that countries may be able to cut their electronic book VAT rates during 2017.
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