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As We Head Into the Next Decade, Is It Time to Rethink Digital Comics?
So, will this mean an uptick in digital comic book sales in the UK this week?   ComiXology UK Drop Prices By 20% as Sales Tax is Removed Image from ComiXology. Yesterday, the UK Government announced that they would be bringing forward the planned removal of the digital reading tax Last year, after what seemed like years[...]
eBooks-VAT
Bleeding Cool pointed out earlier this year that a comic-book-reading political adviser to the UK Conservative Government who buys loads of stuff on ComiXology, specifically placed into the Budget plans to drop the VAT sales tax of 20% charged on digital publications It happened in the week after Amazon-owned ComiXology decided to stop subsidising the[...]
UK Government Removes VAT Sales Tax On Digital Comics
But he has just removed one very significant taxes for readers of this website. Citing Britain as a country of literature, of Shakespeare, of Austen and of Dahl, he announced that VAT, the sales tax applied to digital publications (not print publications), which he dubbed the reading tax, would be removed This applies to books, newspapers,[...]