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Sweden cuts e-book VAT to 6% Jul 2019

  • Feb 26, 2019 | Richard Asquith

Sweden has joined the growing group of EU countries which is cutting its VAT rates on electronic books.

The e-books, online publications and newspapers will be recategorized from the 25% standard VAT rate to the reduced rate of 6%. This will be implemented 1 July 2019.

The move comes following last year’s agreement by EU member states to allow countries to cut their e-book VAT rates to match the reduced or nil rates of their paper equivalents. 


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Richard Asquith
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Richard Asquith is the former VP Global Indirect Tax at Avalara
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