Buying a boat without sales tax?
 

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:41:30 -0500, Ed wrote:

Nope... It's called a sales and USE tax for a reason... if you use your
boat in a state that has a sales tax btu you bought it in one without OR
with a smaller one.. most have the ablility to tax you on the diff.

Florida is the worst... if you come to a boat show, you have 2 weeks
after the last work is done to get her out of FL. If you move here
from SC you pay the full tax...

No experience, but I've read on a boat forum (Carolina Skiff) that if
you have the seller invoice the outboard motor separately, when you
drag it all down to Florida you only pay tax on the boat, and maybe
the trailer. With some of the outboards costing 10k plus, that saves
a chunk of change.

--Vic

Buying a boat without sales tax?
 

"Ed" wrote:

Nope... It's called a sales and USE tax for a reason... if you use your
boat in a state that has a sales tax btu you bought it in one without OR
with a smaller one.. most have the ablility to tax you on the diff.

Don't think the boat will ever get to Nevada or Wyoming.

Lew

Buying a boat without sales tax?
 

"Ed" wrote in message ...
Nope... It's called a sales and USE tax for a reason... if you use your
boat in a state that has a sales tax btu you bought it in one without OR
with a smaller one.. most have the ablility to tax you on the diff.

Florida is the worst... if you come to a boat show, you have 2 weeks after
the last work is done to get her out of FL. If you move here from SC you
pay the full tax...

Are you sure? I bought a boat in Florida and I had 90 days to get her
shipped before sales tax was going to be charged..

Buying a boat without sales tax?
 

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:43:01 -0800, ray lunder
wrote:

Ahoy, I live in Washington state and am thinking about my first "real"
boat- a blue water cruiser in the $30k-$120k. When I buy a car I pay
something like 8% or if it's a gift or a damaged vehicle or you phoney
up the bill of sale you still pay some arbitrary made up blue book
value the state institutes and which is not insignificant. On a $100k
boat this is $8000. Something tells me rich people don't pay this. So
what's the scam? Foreign registry or forming your own corporation or
what? Sorry to be so clueless. Thanks for your time.

Ask any yacht brokerage in Portland how to do it. They specialise in
sales to WA residents,


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2001 Ultraclassic with Sidecar
96 Custom bucket of bolts (gone but not forgotten)

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Buying a boat without sales tax?
 

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:23:44 -0500, Gogarty wrote:

There is a Canadian boat in our marina in New York that has never registered
locally. Never goes to Canada either. Been there for years. What's amusing is
the marina is city owned and operated.

I bet the taxes are higher in Canada, and the enforcement stricter, which
is why the boat has been sitting in NY.

Matt O.

Buying a boat without sales tax?
 

PS.. just one more reason to leave the USA. The country I once knew ..?
It
does not exist.

And I'm sure plenty of people would be glad to see you leave.

But given your laziness that won't happen, and we'll be stuck seeing your
lame-ass posts in the newsgroups.

Buying a boat without sales tax?
 

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:58:13 GMT, Rich wrote:

This may not help you, but it may help others.

Here in the northeast, I live in MA (5% sales tax). I purchased a
boat from a dealer in CT (6%). I keep the boat in RI (NO SALES TAX on
boat purchases).

...

In the course of your research, did you look into how NH taxes boats?
Also, did you look at how used boat sales are taxed in the NE states?
Thanks in advance for any info.
Chuck Cox
SynchroSystems - embedded computer design - http://synchro.com

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Buying a boat without sales tax?
 

No chuck, I didn't. I was only interested in MA, CT, and RI.
Sorry....

Rich

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:05:16 -0500, Chuck Cox
wrote:

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:58:13 GMT, Rich wrote:

This may not help you, but it may help others.

Here in the northeast, I live in MA (5% sales tax). I purchased a
boat from a dealer in CT (6%). I keep the boat in RI (NO SALES TAX on
boat purchases).

...

In the course of your research, did you look into how NH taxes boats?
Also, did you look at how used boat sales are taxed in the NE states?
Thanks in advance for any info.
Chuck Cox
SynchroSystems - embedded computer design - http://synchro.com

my email is politician-proof, just remove the PORK