On Aug 4, 2013, at 11:11 PM, John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At last week's very successful Berlin meeting, the finances were > thrown of whack by the late discovery that the IETF had to pay 19% > German VAT on the registration fee. At the IAOC session they said > that about half of that is likely to be reclaimed from VAT paid, but > the net amount is still a large number. The usual IANAL and IANAC should not be joined by IANACPA. But a CPA at my company said that we couldn't reclaim the VAT, because the "service" was consumed in Germany. If others hear different from their accounting departments, I'd love to hear about it. Just another data point. Yoav