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Buying a boat without sales tax?
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. |
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Buying a boat without sales tax?
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:43:01 -0800, ray lunder
wrote: Foreign registry or forming your own corporation or what? You need to form a corporation in a tax friendly country and register the boat to the company. You will be required to obtain cruising permits to use the boat in the US, follow all US regulations pertaining to foreign registry yachts, as well as paying fees to maintain your offshore entity. The break even point is somewhere north of $1M for most boats. |
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Buying a boat without sales tax?
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). After extensively researching the legal twists to be sure that my plan was sound, I formed a personal corporation in Delaware. This costs me about $150 each year for corporation tax and a registration fee. My dealer wrote the bill of sale to my Delaware corporation and filed the necessary forms with CT to exempt me from paying sales tax. This required that the boat be delivered to me outside of CT, so the delivery was done 15nm away from the dealer in RI. Now my own state, MA, would want to be paid the sales tax on this boat that I bought in another state (CT) just because they feel deserving I guess. Since I keep the vessel in RI, they can't collect. However if I were to spend 60 days or more in MA waters, they would demand payment. The same is true for CT- if I were to spend more than 60 days, CT would want to be paid. I think the number is 60 days, but it might be 90- I'm not completely sure. Now RI knows where their bread is buttered. RI does have a sales tax of 6%, but they exempt this tax on all boat sales. This includes all equipment, outboards, etc. purchased with the boat. I think the only requirement is that the boat be kept in RI waters for 2 years. Now RI isn't dumb. They have created a tax-friendly environment where boaters get a break on a purchase but then pay taxes directly or indirectly on boating supplies, meals in restaurants, and in general contribute to the economic health of the state. Well, it works. I've kept my boat in RI for 10 years, and have no intention of ever moving to one of the money grubbing states. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Buying a boat without sales tax?
Delaware Corp.
"ray lunder" wrote in message news 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. |
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Buying a boat without sales tax?
As I understand it, even if you have out of state registration, if you stay
in specific waters longer than (30-90 days), you will be required to pay the state duties. Typically the harbor masters continually watch for this kind of use abuse. This is true even if you have foreign registration. Even worse, with foreign registration, you will be required to exit the country and make to a foreign port after typically 90 days. If you find a way around these rules, please let us know. I'm in the same boat. (So to speak) Steve "ray lunder" wrote in message news 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. |
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Buying a boat without sales tax?
Steve ,, take Portsmouth, NH. One side of the river is NH, the other is
Maine. So,, you get in the boat and go 100 yards .. That takes care of the "stay in specific waters" problem. PS.. just one more reason to leave the USA. The country I once knew ..? It does not exist. In my humble, dumb, simple, opinion.. The USA can kiss my oversized, ASS. Hear that George .. Go F..k yourself ,, you phony. And take the fat lesbian, Hilary with you.. And all the other morons who are standing on street corners trying to get my vote. I am wearing out my middle finger telling the likes of Edwards, Obama, the right wing, the left wing, the nut cases .. Remember that song.. Take this jog and shove it.. Well, that is what I say to the USA.. Take this Country and Shove It. ========================== "Steve Lusardi" wrote in message ... As I understand it, even if you have out of state registration, if you stay in specific waters longer than (30-90 days), you will be required to pay the state duties. Typically the harbor masters continually watch for this kind of use abuse. This is true even if you have foreign registration. Even worse, with foreign registration, you will be required to exit the country and make to a foreign port after typically 90 days. If you find a way around these rules, please let us know. I'm in the same boat. (So to speak) Steve "ray lunder" wrote in message news 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. |
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The USA can kiss my oversized, ASS.
Hear that George .. Go F..k yourself ,, you phony. And take the fat lesbian, Hilary with you.. And all the other morons who are standing on street corners trying to get my vote. I am wearing out my middle finger telling the likes of Edwards, Obama, the right wing, the left wing, the nut cases .. What I don't understand is why anyone would vote for anyone from the present congress. This is a despised do nothing group on both sides and if you're running for prez, it must be you think you are the creme de la creme when it comes to leadership. But if you can't lead in congress, how can you lead the country? G I know, I know! |
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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. |
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