GTom
Well-known member
Your German passport is not the issue. Your German tax residence is. Once you check out from the EU customs territory, you'll be free to buy a tax unpaid boat and use it for 18 months. With German passport too.I agree, as a Brit with EU residency or dual citizenship (UK + EU country) you will not be able to use a boat VAT free in the EU or the UK.
I am unable to buy a VAT free boat and keep it in the EU using my UK citizenship because my German citizen makes me liable for VAT in the EU.
I could lie and buy a VAT free boat in say Italy, and keep it there only ever using my UK passport on the paperwork etc., but on applying for my German passport I had to declare my UK passport and vice-versa - so a computer somewhere can make the link. I'd then get properly screwed if the relevant authorities ever found out. IMO ... not worth it.