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Denmark Wants Kids to Read More. Will a Tax Cut Help?

With the country facing a “reading crisis,” the Danish government plans to exempt books from a 25 percent value-added tax.

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Readers in Copenhagen in March. Denmark announced this week that it planned to lift the value-added tax on books in a bid to promote literacy.
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