{"id":15883,"date":"2015-03-06T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=15883"},"modified":"2015-03-06T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T21:23:08","slug":"ebooks-will-be-hit-with-higher-value-added-tax-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=15883","title":{"rendered":"eBooks will be hit with higher value-added tax in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <strong><a title=\"eBooks will be hit with higher VAT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/3\/6\/8160679\/eu-ebooks-vat-tax-electronic-service\">The\u00a0Verge<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0the <strong>EU<\/strong> is going to make life harder for the<strong> eBook Revolution<\/strong> and for <strong>eReaders<\/strong> by applying a higher <strong>value-added tax<\/strong> <strong>(VAT)<\/strong>\u00a0rate than is on\u00a0physical books because they consider an eBook an &#8220;electronically supplied service.&#8221; Call it what you want, a cash grab is a cash grab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The\u00a0Verge,\u00a0the EU is going to make life harder for the eBook Revolution and for eReaders by applying a higher value-added tax (VAT)\u00a0rate than is on\u00a0physical books because they consider an eBook an &#8220;electronically supplied service.&#8221; Call it what you want, a cash grab is a cash grab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15885,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883\/revisions\/15885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}