Alessia

Goodmorning, We are an Event Production Company based in Italy and we are organising a private event in the UK. We have asked a local UK company to supply for a temporary truss structure, including transportation to/from location and workforce for set up and dismantling. Transportation and workforce represent more than the 50% of the total of the quotation, while the rest is the cost of the material they are providing for the structure. We have asked not to be charged with UK VAT, as we think in this case the B2B general rule "supplied where the customer belongs" should be applied but they claim that this would go under the special rule for hire of goods. How can this be defined? Could two invoices be done, one for the cost of the material with VAT and one with the cost of transportation and workforce without VAT? Thank you in advance!