Posted on 09/17/2008 10:31:21 AM PDT by mainestategop
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — The manager of Dysart’s Great Harbor Marina blames a downturn in business on the Maine Revenue Services’ efforts to enforce the use tax on boats.
Letters sent to marina customers by Maine Revenue Services (MRS) stating that boat owners might owe a use tax were not well received, according to Micah Peabody, manager. As a result, some of those customers cancelled their plans for tying up at the marina this summer.
“We lost some serious revenue,” Peabody said.
Maine law requires any boat less than one year old docked in Maine waters for 30 consecutive days or more to be assessed a use tax if a sales tax was not paid elsewhere. The tax is 5 percent of the sale value of the boat which, when levied on a multi-million-dollar yacht, can be substantial. If the sales tax paid on the boat is less than 5 percent of the selling price, the state can collect the difference.
(Excerpt) Read more at ellsworthmaine.com ...
Maine apparently wants the boating industry to move out of state.
This can’t be true. Every good liberal knows that tax policies do not ever influence behavior of citizens. That is why you can raise tax revenues by raising tax rates and reducing tax rates always causes a reduction in tax revenues — well, except for when Kennedy did it, and except for when Reagan did it, and except for when Bush did it in 2001, and 2003.
this is only aimed at new boats?
Never, never, NEVER, underestimate the math illiteracy of a liberal. That’s why they are libs, couldn’t pass any real courses in college. To them, more taxes equals more $$. Period.
Yes... They are stupid. I used to work with kids and young adults with developmental disabilities and MR and these guys can do a better job than the Liberal Idiots in Augusta.
Well from what I have been told it’s against boats that are parked at the marina for a certain period.
The left wing mantra of soaking the rich, they can afford it attitude is what non-educated dolts it shows they truly are.
People are wealthy for basically three reasons:
1. Inherited/family wealth
2. Hard work, innovation
3. Luck/gift (see Hollywood or professional sports)
Maine is becoming more and more Communist.
Maine and Florida both try to do this to airplanes just for landing there and possibly getting some maintenance. They don’t care if you paid sales tax in other jurisdictions.
Government gone crazy. However with this exception Florida is a tax friendly place. Maine just sucks.
I live in Maryland, and I own a large boat. It would have been very easy for me to arrange to take delivery of my boat from the manufacturer in Delaware, a state that has no sales tax, and then move it to Maryland. However, since Maryland has a use tax which parallels its sales tax, this dodge wouldn't work.
Maryland enforces its use tax pretty much the same way Maine does, and I expect other states which have big boating populations do the same.
BTW, this is not restricted to boats. The same situation exists with respect to cars.
In every state that I know of, you get full credit on the use tax for any sales or use tax you paid to another state.
If the Obomination gets in ... this is nothing.
He’ll “antionalize” businesses, healthcare, banking ... they already have the school system ... WATCH OUT!
VOTE McPain/Palin and hope Sarah straightens McPain out.
You are a North Carolina resident the taxes are not near what they are in other states. I didn’t say that if you employed a lawyer and spent a lot of time you couldn’t get your credit but they should not be able to tax another states airplane. Florida has no time limit as in Maine’s 30 day. You just land.
You are a North Carolina resident the taxes are not near what they are in other states. I didn’t say that if you employed a lawyer and spent a lot of time you couldn’t get your credit but they should not be able to tax another states airplane. Florida has no time limit as in Maine’s 30 day. You just land.
You are a North Carolina resident the taxes are not near what they are in other states. I didn’t say that if you employed a lawyer and spent a lot of time you couldn’t get your credit but they should not be able to tax another states airplane. Florida has no time limit as in Maine’s 30 day. You just land.
I used to visit Maine in the summers with my ex-girlfriend’s family off Boothbay Harbor.
Leftist politics encourage failure, and at best, mediocrity.
In the end, if people have no goals or dreams, the State ends up being God, as it doles out all resources. Look at Barry Obama’s programs, they all encourage a free ride, not innovation, hard work or risk.
It is classic Marxist thought.
“30 consecutive days”
Can’t you just go out for a 4 hour cruise.
The only way they have to acertain where the boat was is its log. Every three weeks dock it out of state or in Canada overnight. Record it in the log. If Maine raises and issue, you are covered.
I had family with a motorhome in California right near Oregon. The coach was registered in Oregon for tax reasons, and stored there when not in regular use. A couple of time CA tried to claim it and assess penalties. The log with gas reciepts stopped that.
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