VAT -paying twice on a boat

[petery]

I still haven't found a foolproof way of proving that my 22 year old boat is VAT exempt without mooring receipts for 1992 ! - but, in looking, I came across this article

http://www.noonsite.com/Members/webmaster/R2001-05-30-1

which indicates that, you may have to pay VAT again if your boat leaves the EU for 3 years and then returns.

Even though it apparently only is applied by Germany, it makes you think!!

 

[Twister_Ken]

If you are going via Caribbean, remember that Guadaloupe and Martinique are French départments, and therefore EU.

I'm not sure but same may also be true of Réunion in the Indian Ocean.

In which case, make sure the port police stamp your logbook.

 

[davidhand]

The information I got from the VAT people was that if you took a boat out of the EU and brought it back no more VAT was due. If however you sold it whilst outside, the new owner would have to pay VAT if the boat was returned. By the way if the French Carribean islands are part of France does that mean that any EU national can go there and work?

 

[EME]

Yes ... any EC can go and work on Guadeloupe , etc and Reunion. If however you had ever been there you might not be so keen given the low standards of living and incredible high levels of unemployment and high birth rates..wages are a pittance...

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[EME]

Yes ... any EC can go and work on Guadeloupe , etc and Reunion. If however you had ever been there you might not be so keen given the low standards of living and incredible high levels of unemployment and high birth rates..wages are a pittance...

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