T&T: Delaware Corp ownership question

Robert Hagens rob at thehagens.info
Wed Jun 4 22:41:17 EDT 2008


I live in Colorado and am thinking of purchasing a trawler. If the nature of
my voyaging would be that there was no "home port", but not live aboard
either, what state would you choose and how might that impact sales/use tax?
For example, I might hypothetically want to cruise Chesapeake Bay for the
summer. Perhaps haul the boat thru winter, and then the following spring
cruise to Florida to spend spring early summer in Florida, then perhaps keep
the boat in a hurricane hole for the rest of the fall. Then the following
winter cruise somewhere else...Bahamas would be nice...

The point is that the boat might spend more than 90 days in each location,
but wouldn't stay perhaps more than 1 year in any area. Obviously you
wouldn't want to pay sales tax in every state! I'm not trying to avoid
paying tax; just trying to understand how this would work out in practice.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Robert Hagens
Landlocked in Colorado


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