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VAT is baked into retail prices in Germany. And retail prices are typically either something round or end in .99 or so; ie not arbitrary.

So it's unlikely their German prices would just take the same input as eg Dutch prices and changed the VAT around.

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I know how VAT works. If the government changes the VAT overnight then prices won't round to .99 until merchants (or Amazon themselves) change the base price again. I don't see the issue.

Usually in B2C prices are quoted and agreed upon as gross price (including tax). If the tax rate is lowered, this then raises the base price.

I mentioned this, because American retail prices as quoted typically don't include their equivalent of VAT.

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