{"id":161523,"date":"2025-08-21T09:49:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/denmark-cuts-25-book-sales-tax-due-to-alarming-low-level-reading-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:49:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:49:02","slug":"denmark-cuts-25-book-sales-tax-due-to-alarming-low-level-reading-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/denmark-cuts-25-book-sales-tax-due-to-alarming-low-level-reading-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark cuts 25% book sales tax due to alarming low-level &#8216;reading crisis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With data showing one in four 15-year-olds struggle to understand a simple text, Denmark is scrapping its 25% VAT on books, the world&#8217;s highest tax, in a effort to tackle a growing literacy crisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/08\/21\/denmark-cuts-25-book-sales-tax-due-to-alarming-low-level-reading-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With data showing one in four 15-year-olds struggle to understand a simple text, Denmark is scrapping its 25% VAT on books, the world&#8217;s highest tax, in a effort to tackle a growing literacy crisis. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":161524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}