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'Reading crisis' prompts Denmark to end 25% tax on books
Worried by a "reading crisis", Denmark's government will eliminate its sales tax on books, looking to get more citizens buying them, the culture minister has said.
"We need to do all we can to fix this reading crisis that has unfortunately spread in recent years," Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt told news agency Ritzau, announcing the government's budget bill would propose eliminating the sales tax on books. The latest education report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) raised alarm in Denmark when it found 24% of Danish 15-year-olds cannot understand a simple text, up four percentage points in a decade. Denmark's publishing industry had pushed for the tax cut, saying in a May report the government needed to "guarantee access to physical books for all Danes - both children and adults".
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