Rejected petition Scrap VAT On Digital Books

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Printed books are exempt from VAT, and quite rightly so. Nobody, surely, wants a tax on learning? But ebooks (the kind you get on Kindle and so on) are not.

This is a ridiculous inconsistency. I won't list the reasons why - you're smart people, you can work it out yourself.

So - please sign if you want the government to remove the VAT duty on digital books.

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Date submitted 4 August 2011
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