Hi,
I run a company who are attending an exhibition in the UK at the end of January. The company running the exhibition included VAT on the invoice, when I went back to them asking for a VAT free invoice because we are an Irish company I got the following reply:
"Hi
Sorry about this but VAT still needs to be paid because the event takes place in the UK. Events are classified differently for VAT I'm afraid."
Does anyone know if this is in fact the case? Does it make a difference when it comes to paying VAT if it is for an event taking place in the UK?
And if VAT is due is there some way I can reclaim this from the UK government? (I'm assuming here there is no way we can reclaim it as part of our Irish VAT return to revenue given that they would have never received the VAT paid in the first place so they are hardly going to repay it to our company).
Thanks for any advice provided.