Trade fairs and VAT
With effect from 1 January 2011, Spain modified its law related to the treatment of VAT for trade fairs.
Until last year, the rental of exhibition space and related services such as stand construction, catering, stand design, etc. were equated by the Spanish tax authorities with activities related to real estate. The result was that these services had to be billed at any time with Spanish VAT.
From 2011, this finally changed: in case the customer is a company, the organization of trade fairs and all related activities will be considered realized in the country where this customer is established (except for tickets of access and related services).
For more information please contact Ibersupport
Ed Viering, director NMT International Shipping España SLIbersupport is a solid company, and has been doing our bookkeeping in Spain for the last 4 years. We expect to be doing business with them for many years to come. Any questions we have are answered directly, which isn't always the case with other accounting companies in Spain.