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Originally Posted by goboatingnow 
phew |
Phew indeed
A lot of what you write I agree with / sounds reasonable / I have no idea on
But would have been nice for my comments to have been read / understood in context.
I must remember that the next time either me (or my father) get our papers inspected in France by the Customs - including for VAT - that it is not really happening. I will also advise my Father to throw away his confirmation of VAT paid from UK Customs as it does not exist (albeit I appreciate that they no longer issue these). Me I can prove she was UK built pre VAT, have evidence that she lived in the UK before I bought her within the UK and she is still registered their. In practice, and all together, this has worked for me.
But as always, experiances vary - and I appreciate that UK folk with a UK reg boat may attract less interest.
Whilst I do not profess to be an expert on VAT matters (life is too short
) I do read on the internet a few folk being particularly vocal in saying "don't worry" about the VAT. Not quite sure why some folk seem to want to push this idea so keenly - well, not unless their is money to be made selling VAT unpaid boats to folk.........now there's an idea
