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From: De Clarke (no email)
Date: Fri Sep 03 2004 - 12:09:20 EDT
The deal is just about closed on the boat I'm trying to buy up in
Canada. Now I have to find out about the rules and regs surrounding
tax, licensing, and import into the US.
Last I looked at US Customs docs, the import duty on boats post-NAFTA
was 1 percent, so that is not a big deal.
Tax/licensing seems potentially scarier. The boat will remain in Canada
for some months -- at least 9 months -- pending some repair and upgrade
activity. Question is, do I need to pay taxes in BC and license the
boat there? Is there some "grace period", and how long is it? If I pay
taxes and license the boat in BC, what will the State of CA require when
I bring the boat into the US later on? I know someone, somewhere, is
going to demand sales/use tax on this boat. But who, and when?
Doing the wrong thing with vessel licensing and taxation can lead to
all kinds of persecution by officials at distant desks, so I'd like
to tread carefully. I've been googling for info on "canada boat tax"
and "canada vessel purchase" and so forth, but oddly am not finding
much. Does anyone know of a good source of info, preferably a nice
simple checklist of steps to go through and people to contact, to make
a freshly-purchased boat all legal and documented? (I don't mean
"documented" in the US sense, what the Canadians call "registered" --
just documented as in "has some paperwork").
I know this is a bit OT, not having strictly to do with living aboard
(though I do plan to live aboard this boat when I retire); but there's
such a deep pool of experience on this list that I thought someone might
know the answers... by all means redirect me to a better group or
list for this question, if it's inappropriate here...
de
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