I watched an interview recently with a musician. He plays in the band King Crimson. It's not a band I followed but I had heard of them and, well, he explained just how complicated and expensive it is these days to tour in Europe.
Every member of the tour party had to have a work visa to enter each country, and it cost between £100 and £200 per visa depending on which country they were entering, so it was costing the band several thousand pounds every time they crossed a border.
The visas had to be applied for at each UK embassy of the countries they were visiting so their passports could be stamped, so it took months for all the passports to receive the required stamp, as the passports could only be at one embassy at a time.
As if that was not enough, he added they had a van with all the merchandise on board, T-shirts and so on. They had to pay VAT in full on all the merchandise entering the country, and if they sold 10%, they could then reclaim 90% of the VAT they had paid when they left, but the same scenario happened when entering the next country.
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