How high is the VAT% in your country
What if you will ruin the book by accident? Someone could steal it?
I think it's a good thing that goverment takes a cut from as useless thing as video games. At least then I can feel good about it. Just that I can buy something while supporting my country and I can give away an excellent game both at once.
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Thanks for reminding me, I found the thread I mentioned after all: http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/320gV/european-union-may-pay-more-on-steam-and-other-digital-services-starting-as-of-january-1-2015
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In the UK since Jan 1st prices have actually gone down. Funny how having a taxman watching seems to provide fairer exchange rates.
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I would have assumed that the Store price has VAT included (if digital games pay such tax anyway)
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I wouldn't think so, maybe there is a US tax that all games distributed by Valve must pay though (since it's a Digital Service based in the US), but that's just an assumption
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Doesn't different European countries have a different amount of VAT but pay the same price on Steam?
And don't they have taxes in the US too but it's different from state to state so the price on Steam isn't actually the final price in some states?
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An other thing is the exchange rate. 1 year ago the exchange rate was 1,4 know it's more like 1,1.
Example:
60$ game sold for 60€. If we assume the 60$ is without tax (needs conformation) and we subtract 20% tax from 60€ [60€*0,80=48€] we get 48€ without taxes.
1 year ago: 48€×1,4 = 67,2$ [we paid more]
now: 48€×1,1 = 52,8$ [we pay less now]
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The United States does not have a national Sales Tax or Value Added Tax. However, many lesser jurisdictions do impose sales taxes, including several US states, each with their own rates and requirements.
The listed US price on Steam does not include any such taxes and they are added at checkout.
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You see people talking about dollar and euro beign different and how games should cost less in Europe.
Well actually they do. In Finland we have general VAT of 24% but in this calculation I'm going to lower it to 18% which is more common in Europe.
So if $20 is 18.31€ but we add 18% VAT to that:
18.31€×1.18=21.6058€
We actually pay less than what we are supposed to be paying.
And I think this pretty good thing that publishers think about VAT countries.
Please tell me if I screwed up something:( It's pretty late here...
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