Kenneth Rough

I just remembered that I purchased Ianto Evans & Leslie Jacksons 'Rocket Mass Heaters' pdf version a few weeks ago and VAT wasn't charged on that.

I've just checked and they use digitalproductdelivery. The payment was through paypal. If I remember rightly from when I worked in ecommerce, paypal fees are approx 4%, not sure what dpd charge on top of that though.

HMRC have ebooks as zero rated for VAT, no matter what country they are purchased in. Audio books appear to be the only format that still has VAT applied in the UK.

I purchased an ebook from an online seller based in the USA a few months ago. They use gumroad and they just had to change a setting so that it didn't charge the 20% VAT when the payment was processed.

I would like to buy 'The Art of Fire' ebook. I live in the UK. The VAT rules changed in 2020 so that ebooks came into line with printed books and are now zero rated for VAT. I do not know if you still need to do anything on your end for zero rated items or if I can just go ahead and purchase and click the relevant button that says no VAT is charged.