On 5 February 2015 at 14:02, Emmanuel Lécharny <elecharny@gmail.com> wrote:

Le 05/02/15 14:50, Kimball Johnson a écrit :
> Most if not all suppliers will charge VAT too thugh, so when budgeting you
> should work with ex-vat prices accross the board, and then just att VAT to
> the ticket price.
>
> I suspect a large number of atendees will be able to claim it back anyway.

They may, but it will have no impact whatsoever on your accounting. The
pb is that, from a taxe POV, an event such LDAPCON is considered as
'final', ie, the VAT can't be claimed back by the organizer. The reason
being there is no way to create a 'chain' of VAT down to the public, as
ther eis no way to know who will reclaim the VAT.

I don't quite know what you mean by that. We can claim back all the VAT that is charged to us by supplies, and then we just charge VAT on top of the ticket price.

A large number of the attendees will work for VAT registered companies, and so they will claim back the VAT, and in turn charge VAT to their customers.

The point is you should not take any VAT into account in your budgeting and accounting, the only place you care about it is adding 20% to the final ticket price.

Kimball