Enter your VAT = business ticket is quite a common scheme AFAIK. Pycon Italy does this since its first conference (2007). A small business is still a business,

Enter your VAT = business ticket is quite a common scheme AFAIK. Pycon Italy does this since its first conference (2007). A small business is still a business, and business tickets kind of subsidize personal tickets. Difference in price between personal and business is a bit steep here, that’s the real problem.