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"I guess perjury doesn't mean much anymore." These types of accusations
don't mean much either stated anonymously using only a first name, without
the benefit of knowledge, hiding behind an email box.
We lived together in Portland, Oregon for 13 years; Mike much longer.
Purchased the boat and lived aboard there until making Wyoming our
residence. We paid Oregon's exorbitant income tax for all of those years,
owned real property and paid those taxes. At least the sales tax states
allow you to keep the income you make until you have a chance to spend it.
Oregon wants 'theirs' before you have a chance to spend it. It also doesn't
sit very well with us that state's have the ability to tax an antecedent
event that occurred (buying a boat or airplane for instance) prior to
residence in that state. Taxes were paid, regardless what they are called
(income, sales, property, etc.) It is no crime to avoid taxes. To paraphrase
a Supreme Court Justice (Learned Hand): No one is obligated to pay more
taxes than are due. If it were not for Washington's (State of) greediness,
we would reside here as there is no income tax either but they do want a
confiscatory boat tax (sales) to register the vessel-Wyoming wants neither.
We enjoy British Columbia and gladly pay the 14 percent sales (Province and
Crown) sales tax. We enjoy winter cruising in the beautiful Gulf Islands and
are enchanted by Victoria over the Holidays. Living out of the country is
exciting as I have been exposed to it for most of my life. The big losers
are
the merchants of Washington state who miss out on the economic velocity of
our (and many others similarly situated) dollars being circulated in the
economy of the state because of the greed of the state government in not
recognizing that taxes paid are taxes paid even though they are not called
"sales taxes". If we had bought the boat in a sales tax state, we would have
been given credit for the taxes paid. We paid 10 percent income tax plus a
high property tax ($25/1000 valuation-true market value) to Oregon and
receive no credit. Galling to say the least. We spend our allotted time
enjoying the wonderful cruising grounds of Puget Sound and head back to our
tax haven when our time is up as do many other folks up here.
Kate Adams
Mike Folkestad
s/v Aquarius
lying Port Hadlock, WA
PS The US is one of the few countries (only 2 I believe--France being the
other) that tax income after you leave the country!
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