Following the recent ECOFIN debate, the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs committee has voted to lower VAT rates on e-books, aligning them with printed books. The proposal will now be voted by the Parliament as a whole on May 31st (or June 1^st).

CTG has welcomed this helpful development, which we proposed in a response to a Commission consultation last year.

CTG response to the Commission consultation on reduced rates for e-books