Thread: Cruising Boats Being Impounded by Mexican IRS
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Default Cruising Boats Being Impounded by Mexican IRS
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:08:42 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Friday, January 10, 2014 4:54:24 AM UTC-6, Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:49:04 -0500, Wayne.B

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Big story, big fiasco, 338 boats so far.



http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/lectronicday.lasso?date=2014-01-08#.Us96MLRBGl9



Is there any references of what actually happened, and why?



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Bruce in Bangkok

Probably the boats are being held under "minor technicalities" or 'clerical errors" that is, impounded while waiting for the appropriate palms to be greased.

I read one article by someone who's boat was seized and I gathered
that bringing a boat to Mexico without it being assumed to have been
imported and thus liable for some large import duty is a fairly
complicated, although well known, exercise. One of the guy's
complaints was that because the DIN on one boat had been "painted over
many years ago" it had been seized, I assume for incomplete
documentation.

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Cheers,

Bruce in Bangkok
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