Brussels, 05/03/2015 (Agence Europe) - France and Luxembourg will no longer be able to apply reduced rates of VAT on electronic books (5.5% and 3% respectively) and will have to apply the standard rates (20% in France and 17% in Luxembourg).
A judgment delivered by the Court of Justice of the EU (joined cases C-479/13 and C-502/13) on Thursday 5 March found in favour of the European Commission which, in 2012, had ruled that, in applying reduced VAT rates to e-books, the two countries were...