>
> 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.
Yes.
>
> 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.
That was my mistake, and that was what I wanted to warn you about. Then
I mixed up things, sorry for that !

No Worries :)

I've organised quite a few conferences in the UK now, so getting pretty good at the budget now :)

Which incidentally, i've not forgotten about for this, just need to get the worries of FLOSS UK Spring out of the way first.

Kimball