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      <title>The EU's official VAT rate database got history wrong. Here's how we caught it.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>TEDB, the European Commission's VAT rate database, returned wrong historical rates for Greece and Germany, and later changed one answer without notice. What we found and how we check.</description>
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      <title>Selling e-books and templates? They're taxed at different VAT rates</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>In most EU countries and the UK, an e-book gets a reduced VAT rate and a template doesn't. Why, what counts as an e-book, and what that means for your checkout.</description>
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      <title>Why price × standard rate is the wrong way to calculate EU VAT</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Multiplying the price by the country's standard rate is how most VAT code starts. Five ways it goes wrong: dates, product categories, business customers, where you are based, and rounding.</description>
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