- France applies a reduced rate of 10% on admission fees to exhibitions, sites, and installations with a cultural, recreational, educational, or professional nature.
- This reduced rate does not apply to services that are not admission fees, such as equipment rental or guide services.
- It also does not apply to access to sports facilities, automatic devices other than fairground lotteries, establishments of lustful nature or gambling, shows, and zoos.
- Each Member State can decide whether to apply a reduced VAT rate to the right of access of an event or not.
- Applying a reduced rate on registration fees can increase profit margin, but local law is often ambiguous on this matter.
Source: vatdesk.eu
Note that this post was (partially) written with the help of AI. It is always useful to review the original source material, and where needed to obtain (local) advice from a specialist.
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