By harmonizing the VAT rate imposed on e-books and traditional, printed books Turkey has become the updated country and it plans to rearrange e-books from the standard VAT rate of 18% to the same reduced rate 8% for books. The Turkish VAT deduct to e-books came into effect at the beginning of December 2013. There are some differences in the e-books classification for VAT such as countries like Germany and the UK charge their full, standard rates whilst collecting deduct rates on print books.
EU VAT Directive is responsible for this difference that permits a deduct rate for printed books and other key social products and services. Moreover, it does not notify about digital e-books being given the same subsidy. A number of other EU member including France and Luxembourg states levy deducted rates on e-books. Both of these countries with legal were threatened by the EU to levy a reduced rate in break VAT Directive of the European Court of Justice for going forward.
