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by twic 4232 days ago
For what it's worth, VAT on books in 0% in the UK:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-notice-70110-...

Not because we're some sort of literary paradise, though. Probably some civil servant decided in the '50s that books were improving and zero-rated them, and now everyone would kick up a fuss if it changed.