On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:58 AM, martin f krafft <madd...@debconf.org> wrote: > Hello, > > DebConf attendance is free of charge for everyone, but we have > suggested (and are planning to suggest) to our professional and > corporate attendees to contribute certain amounts towards covering > the conference costs. These are always entirely voluntary > contributions and nothing keeps a corporate attendee from not paying > any contribution. See last paragraph if you disagree with this. > > It occurred to some of us that attendees might actually prefer to > receive proper invoices, as these are more natural in the context of > business tax declarations and expense reports. You'll still receive > donation receipts for the contributions, but those may not be as > suitable to your needs. > > Therefore, I am proposing to make two changes to the registration > form, and have attached a patch proposal against registration.xhtml: > > - to underline the voluntary nature of the contributions, > a free-form field should be added so that people can choose to > contribute any other amount instead of just 200/500. The 200 and > 500 are then simply the amounts we suggest to people who > identify themselves as pro/corp. > > - to make it easier for people operating out of a business > context, a checkbox should be added with text like "Instead of > a donation receipt, I need a proper invoice. I am aware that > this invoice will then include 19% VAT as per German law."¹) > > In the long run, we might want to consider making the conf > registration mandatory for e.g. corporate representatives (who are > probably the only ones that deal with expense reports and > VAT-inclusive invoices), but it's too late for DC15. > > ¹) this is the worst-case scenario and it's not unlikely that we > will find a way to provide a way to get tax exemption here. >
Could we just say these fees are mandatory tickets, and treat the people we don't charge as need-based special exceptions that we sell discounted tickets to? When I say discounted, I mean discounted down to zero. Thanks, Brian _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
