Anyone who loves to get App Store price drops, especially iPhone and iPad users who live in EU (but don't forget that App store shut down in Russia), might not be happy to know that the company already emailed its application developers about the new VAT laws. According to the changes that are applied starting on January 1, 2015, Apple App Store price could increase in the EU region and across the world. Right now all the devs are informed about changes in VAT rates. And such changes can influence the iOS app price for customers. The Cupertino-based company used to charge and now charges flat VAT rates for each app sold via the store and downloaded by European Union users. The new laws will set different VAT rate for each EU country and Apple will have to apply different charges to devs based on the country where the iPhone users lives. It is interesting that some regions will charge about 3% while others will get about 20% which is pretty high. This can affect both Apple customers and app developers. VAT stands for value added tax. The EU decided to change this legislation and add different VAT rates for applications and other digital goods based on the consumer place of resident and not country where retailer comes from. Since Apple makes iOS devs set the same price for all countries and customers, non-EU users will also be affected by the new European Union law. If it can make you happy you can still unlock EU iPhone at an affordable price no matter what changes are brought to the App Store in 2015.