I'm currently thinking about two possible designs for my next
boat. One of the designers is in the US (Dick Newick) and the other is
in New Zealand (Malcolm Tennant). What I don't know in my budgeting is
whether I'm going to be hit for import duty and value added tax (VAT)
on these. If I am it could easily be a thousand pounds in tax and
that's a big hit.

Has anyone any experience of importing boat plans into the UK, and if
so are there any ways of minimising the tax hit?

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(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those
who are now possible remain possible -- Michael Bakunin