Heckler
Active member
Just opened up the RYA mag that came today, VAT update it says and in essence the reveners are not convinced there is a prob with proving vat paid status and the RYA do not have evidence of boats being impounded and any one being fined whilst cruising abroad, this despite doing a VAT survey recently. This result doesnt surprise me, i posted a few months ago asking for the same info, plenty of anecdotes but no hard first hand evidence.
Bottom line it would not appear to be a problem so why do we get all bent out of shape about it?
As an aside, the vat invoice for my boat is a std headed piece of paper from a national dealer, the other week I bought a cutlass bearing off them and the invoice was exactly the same but with cutlass bearing on it instead of a boat, the point being that that lusted after piece of paper is a bog std piece of stationary and any one with a computer could come up with an identical piece of paper!!
nuff said?
Stu
Bottom line it would not appear to be a problem so why do we get all bent out of shape about it?
As an aside, the vat invoice for my boat is a std headed piece of paper from a national dealer, the other week I bought a cutlass bearing off them and the invoice was exactly the same but with cutlass bearing on it instead of a boat, the point being that that lusted after piece of paper is a bog std piece of stationary and any one with a computer could come up with an identical piece of paper!!
nuff said?
Stu