I just received the good news about the new D&D-book "The Wild Beyond the Witchlight" and I want to preorder the book. I have ordered and preordered books on dndbeyond many times before, in fact I have bought every single book that has been published so far. When checking out my order, I noticed that I am charged a $6.37 tax added on the purchase. I live in Norway, and books and newspapers are exempt of tax here, which also includes digital books. I have filled out my address, including country, correctly. If I am supposed to pay tax to the US for this purchase, I will of course do so, but I rather think that this must be a bug. I have never been charged tax on any of the books I have purchased on dndbeyond before, and can't understand why this happens now. I would appreciate it if you could have a look at this, and hopefully fix the problem before the pre-order period of the mentioned book expires. Thank you in advance! Regards, Bengt Olav Olsen.

I cannot say for sure, but the US has been a little wonky for the past half decade or so. (Well, for a lot longer than that, but that’s not relevant.) I hope you’re right and it is a mistake because DDB refunds those. But… it might be an export tariff from our government. They did some wacky stuff with our tariff laws under the last guy’s reign. Something that got signed in a couple years ago might have finally just kicked in and now “as of X date blahblahblah…” 🤷‍♂️ I honestly don’t know. And again, I hope your right.

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Given that D&D Beyond does not only provide a readable book, but also tools for it through the builder, it would not fall under the exemption. Possibly if you were to get a compendium only copy it should.

Exemptions do not apply books sold together with another product and which are part of a common product unit.

Well, yes, I can see that point. But I still wonder why it is the first time that I have been charged tax. Shouldn't it, for instance, also apply to the Master Tier Subscription that I recently bought? There wasn't any tax on that, and it's not even a book...

I haven't, actually, I thought maybe posting it here would be sufficient... But you are right, creating an actual support ticket would most certainly be better. I will do so. Thanks! :-)

I have received an answer from support. The tax seems to be correct. According to support, dndbeyond started implementing sales tax for several European countries a few weeks ago, to comply with their tax laws. I guess Norway was one of these countries, and that it means that the books on dndbeyond is not considered to be books for tax-purposes, perhaps for the reasons mentioned by Arenlor. Oh, well... It's not going to stop me from buying the books anyway. At least now I know that it's not a bug.

If it's anything like here in Sweden they count as digital content not books

off topic, but you'd think they'd call it a purchase tax, not a sales tax since the sale is occurring in Alabama, the purchase is occurring in Sweden.