DIGITAL VAT
February 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has ignored strong pressure from the American government to abandon its plans to exempt EU-based suppliers of digital products, (including e-books), from charging VAT when they sell to customers in non-EU countries.Sealing a formal political agreement on the proposal and sending it back to the European Parliament for further discussion, ministers stuck to their line that foreign importers of digital products, downloaded from the Internet, should pay VAT, as the goods are consumed within the EU.This follows ...
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