[C320-list] Update on boat purchase

[Rod Boer]

Hi Brad,

I purchased Odyssey in NJ and sailed it directly to MD which is where I paid
the tax on it.  Sometime later PA, which is where I live, came after me
demanding sales tax and I explained that it hadn't been used in PA and
wouldn't be physically in PA and that was the end of the story.

Rod Boer
Odyssey, #688 

-----Original Message-----
From: c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com
[mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Brad Kuether
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 7:08 PM
To: C320-List at Catalina320.org
Subject: [C320-list] Update on boat purchase

I am less than a month from getting "Independence" a 2004 Catalina, and
bringing her home to Middle River parked one boat over from Wal de Mar.

I have a surveyor lined up, the broker has been GREAT (Sail Place in
Chicago), and almost everything is set, even the financing!

Right now the only open switch is the taxes.  I assumed that I would just
pay the state where the boat was located "to" but this appears to not be the
case.

>From the Maryland DNR page, it appears that I pay taxes in Illinois, and
get a "credit".  I would think Maryland would want those taxes, Illinois got
them already on the initial purchase!

Here are the two pages:

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/boating/registration/

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/download/DNRB-240.pdf


Anyone move a boat to Maryland from another state?  Curious to understand
the tax implications.  I am NOT paying both states!

Thanks in advance for any insight.

-Brad, Mary, Monica, and Jarod
soon to be "Independence"
Hull # 1006
Middle River, MD