{"id":23657,"date":"2020-04-30T15:31:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=23657"},"modified":"2020-04-30T15:31:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:31:47","slug":"uk-scraps-20-sales-tax-early-for-e-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2020\/04\/30\/uk-scraps-20-sales-tax-early-for-e-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"UK scraps 20% sales tax early, for e-journals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/vat-scrapped-on-e-publications\">just announced<\/a> that &#8220;Plans to scrap VAT on e-publications have been fast-tracked, and will come into force tomorrow&#8221;. VAT is the UK&#8217;s main sales tax. This should mean cheaper lockdown e-reading and research &mdash; so long as publishers and Amazon don&#8217;t just keep prices the same and pocket the 20% as extra profit. The move covers &#8220;e-books, e-newspapers, e-magazines and academic e-journals&#8221;, but seemingly not audiobooks. The change will be permanent, and had been scheduled for December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The UK government will also spend \u00a335 million in taking out &#8216;public education&#8217; print ads in newspapers, over the next three months. This will be &#8220;split between local, regional and national print media&#8221;, with what appears to be a strong tilt toward what the government calls the &#8220;most-trusted&#8221; print newspapers. This may imply that the shoddy, slipshod and alarmist reporting we&#8217;ve seen could be about to have financial consequences for newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has just announced that &#8220;Plans to scrap VAT on e-publications have been fast-tracked, and will come into &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2020\/04\/30\/uk-scraps-20-sales-tax-early-for-e-journals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}