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Comment by rplnt | Hacker News Reader

Price of personal license is +25% for EU countries as opposed to US. I thought it's only game distributors who do this kind of thing.

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Personally I've found their price for Personal licenses to be very low -- in the Python world, ActiveState Komodo is $295, Wing IDE is $245, BlackAdder is the only one under $100 and it looks quite "underpowered" when compared to PyCharm.

Regardless, they have promotions running for long periods, so it's easy to start with a trial and then pick up a real license when the price is lower -- the last one ended on 16 April and was 30% off, I got mine last September and it was 50% off.

In general, for software like for everything else, prices reflect what the market will bear. We are willing to pay more, clearly. It's slightly embittering that in this case they cannot bring the usual "import taxes" justification, since they're based in Czech Republic.

Based in the EU means they have to collect VAT for all EU customers. And the VAT amount depends on the volume of sales. If they sell more than a certain amount (€100k) to a specific country they can collect the VAT rate for the buyer country otherwise it is the seller country VAT. And the VAT seems to be 20% in Czech Republic. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax#...)

It specifically states that the price is without tax (tax excluded). I didn't proceed any further to see if it will be included in the later steps.

Checked my last receipt from them, 19% VAT was included in the total amount billed (this was 2011 and it was for Resharper). But the seem to sell it through a German company so I guess it is German VAT.

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