steve_cronin
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I'm passing this on from a Cruising Association information service so some may know already.
When will Wee Gordie jump into the honeypot being pulled by the gravy train (Pardon the mixed metaphores!)
<span style="color:brown"> ""Wealth Tax in Sardinia
Further to various comments on mednet display
Our friends in Ser-Mar have shown us a copy of the actual legislation dated 30.05.06 which summarise as follows
Motor Craft pay per year
14 to 15.99 metre €1000
16 to 19.99 " 2000
20 to 23.99 " 3000
24 to 29.99 " 5000
30 to 60 " 10.000
More than 60 15.000
Sailing craft with an auxiliary engine pay 50%
Craft less than 14 mtr are exempt
Officially these charges apply even if the yacht only stays for a few days in Sardinia however in Alghero according to [our source] it is possible to avoid total payment by making a contract for a year paying only the time that the yacht actually stays in port on account. They say that the yacht can then go around the island with the same contract without paying any more of the tax.
In both Carloforte and Villasimius no mention of the tax was made at all and it is clear that enforcement may be sporadic.
[our source] also said that in view of the intense hostility to the tax throughout the Sardinian yachting related industry it would not be surprising if it died a quiet death. "" </span>
I hope that even mentioning it doesn't bring such a thing down upon our heads but if you were to put it to a referendum "of the people" I'm certain that the current politics of jealousy would bring the thumbs down to us "fat cats messing around in posh yachts bought through the sweat of the proletariat" and the imposition of a wealth tax.
Steve Cronin
When will Wee Gordie jump into the honeypot being pulled by the gravy train (Pardon the mixed metaphores!)
<span style="color:brown"> ""Wealth Tax in Sardinia
Further to various comments on mednet display
Our friends in Ser-Mar have shown us a copy of the actual legislation dated 30.05.06 which summarise as follows
Motor Craft pay per year
14 to 15.99 metre €1000
16 to 19.99 " 2000
20 to 23.99 " 3000
24 to 29.99 " 5000
30 to 60 " 10.000
More than 60 15.000
Sailing craft with an auxiliary engine pay 50%
Craft less than 14 mtr are exempt
Officially these charges apply even if the yacht only stays for a few days in Sardinia however in Alghero according to [our source] it is possible to avoid total payment by making a contract for a year paying only the time that the yacht actually stays in port on account. They say that the yacht can then go around the island with the same contract without paying any more of the tax.
In both Carloforte and Villasimius no mention of the tax was made at all and it is clear that enforcement may be sporadic.
[our source] also said that in view of the intense hostility to the tax throughout the Sardinian yachting related industry it would not be surprising if it died a quiet death. "" </span>
I hope that even mentioning it doesn't bring such a thing down upon our heads but if you were to put it to a referendum "of the people" I'm certain that the current politics of jealousy would bring the thumbs down to us "fat cats messing around in posh yachts bought through the sweat of the proletariat" and the imposition of a wealth tax.
Steve Cronin
