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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[...]

Om Monday, my weekly political cartoon for Guido Fawkes looked at the plans this week for Sunak Rishi, the Conservative government's new Chancellor Of The Exchequer to increase public borrowing and spending, as well removing tax relief, increasing the tax burden overall But he has just removed one very significant taxes for readers of this[...]

In our preparation for the upcoming EU 2015 VAT changes, we made an error and added VAT to one or more of your purchases We are issuing refunds for the over-charge as we speak! Please note that, effective January 1, 2015, purchases made on any comiXology-powered web store will be subject to new EU VAT collection regulations. Maybe it's time to make your ComiXology purchases in[...]

By Joe Glass Okay, so it may not be as bad as all that, but it's certainly not good. If you are a fan of many of the indie or small press comics you can find at comic cons around the world and online, and especially if you live in the EU, you may have seen a[...]

But in the UK, our sales tax, VAT, is zero rated for books Which is great, it means that books, magazines, comics can be imported from abroad and sold without paying import or sales taxes, which even after shipping fees across the world, means that American comics don't cost as much as they otherwise might. Which[...]