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ruairinewman
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About ruairinewman
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Comment #8687548
Part of the problem is that there is no uniform provision across the EU for VAT exemption for books. Some countries charge VAT on paper books, or on e-books, or on both.
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Comment #8687465
This is definitely a retrograde step, especially in countries such as the Republic of Ireland, where paper books are generally ascribed a 0% VAT rate. That doesn't protect us in re…
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Comment #8687156
Surely this process means that HIV is just as capable of evolving into something even more lethal over time, given the right environment? Given the relatively closed environment of…
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Comment #8687120
I don't know. I used to work for AWS, and this sounds very link an internal tool that is used to manage the entire Amazon retail infrastructure. That being the case, this is going …