ECJ: The Court rules against reduced VAT rates for electronic books
On 5 March 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) gave its decision in the infraction cases against France and Luxembourg on their application of reduced VAT rates on electronic books (C-479/13 and C-502/13). In summary, the Court has ruled that France and Luxembourg cannot apply a reduced VAT rate to the
ECJ Decision (K Oy): VAT rate for non-printed books
On 11 September 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) gave its decision in K Oy (case C-219/13) regarding the question whether reduced rates for books published in paper form should equally be applied to books published on another physical medium, or whether different VAT rates can be justified. The Court has