On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 00:11 -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
From: "John Levine" <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com>
> what's different in Berlin from Paris and Prague and Maastricht.
The Germans have more 'zealous' tax collectors? :-)
Noel
It appears that the goalposts have been moved - the basic change came in
a couple of years ago:
http://www.uktrainingworldwide.com/BB/vat-rules-for-events-and-seminars.html
but the proximal cause may be to do with an update from last September
(and this was instigated in Germany):
See page 159 of
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/taxation/vat/key_documents/vat_committee/2012_guidelines-vat-committee-meetings_en.pdf
This is probably ultimately down to the tightening of the inter-country
trading rules after the clampdown on so-called carousel trading.
But with the arcana of VAT rules ... who knows (certainly not me
although I have tangled with a few of them)?
Doubtless clearing this up will require a confrontation of tax lawyer
and VAT officer at dawn in some shady forest glade.
/Elwyn