English Translation

6h - 38 - This was (and is still today) the case with the textbooks, whereas the associations - with the Czechs it does not look any better in this respect - and bodies a sharp struggle is being waged. When l932 the value added tax was increased, this of course also resulted in a higher burden on the school books. School book sellers are therefore entitled today to sell the school books with a 3% surcharge on the price of the book ordinary. This provision, however, applies only to the German school book trade, whereas German schoolbook sellers in Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia were granted a 5% surcharge because of their unfavourable situation, with the exception of the 3% VAT rate of 2 %. Since 1922, the Czech school book publishing house did not charge any VAT, and even when the increase to 3% was made, the calculation of the original 2 % was maintained. The calculation of 1 per cent added was exempted from the individual publishers with the only condition that the treatment of all 45) customers of a publishing house should be uniform. The poor book system. A special chapter in the school book system was written by the poor books.