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Denmark drops taxes on books to combat reading crisis

Monday, 25 August 2025    Books+Publishing
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The Danish government announced it will abolish a 25% sales tax on books, ‘in an effort to combat a “reading crisis”’, reported the BBC. The move to abolish the tax comes after OECD, an intergovernmental think tank, ‘found 24% of Danish 15-year-olds cannot understand simple text, up four percentage points...

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Category: International news