Brussels, 15/05/2014 (Agence Europe) - Different VAT rates applied to the sale of printed books and audio and digital books (recorded on DVD, CD-Rom and USB sticks) can be justified under European law when it is proved that the latter have specific characteristics or properties compared to the former and that the average consumer perceives them as such.
This is the conclusion that Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi reached on Wednesday 14 May in Case C-219/13 K, where a Finnish court requested...