70% cut received from Euro countries not really 70%?

I just found a weird discrepancy in my reports. It seems that apple is paying us less than 70% for Euro payments.

For example, 1.99 USD apps sell for 1.59 EUR in Euro currency countries.

In my reports the royalties received for this price bracket is .97 EUR

Correct me if my math is wrong but 70% of 1.59 is 1.11

If this is true that means Apple is taking .14 EUR extra from us (which converts to about .18 USD per app)

This is quite disturbing if its true, and why would they be taking more money from Euro payments?

Anyone have some insight on this?

 

any sales tax would be charged over the sale price (same way its done here, 1.99 app really costs the customer 2 something)

so that does not explain it.