Many will recognise the following scenario – you have worked hard gathering together invoices from overseas business trips, such as hotel bills, taxi receipts, conference invoices etc. You have completed endless forms and submitted your claim to the relevant European Union (“EU”) tax authority to get a refund of VAT. You wait half a year only to be greeted by an outright refusal from the tax authority to refund the VAT.
Source: way2vat.com