I am concerned about these issues especially being a live-a-board year around.
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What is happening are the states are now using the same methods,
they use for state titled and registered boats; here the state
boating department will report all registered vessels within the sate. A list is then sent out to all the state towns and cities acessors offices. If your address is in that town or city, then you have a bill waiting for you.
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Now all USCG documented boats/vessels (all on the federal register) are doing the very same, sending out their list to the states. Here the states then pass this federal list forward in the same manner. Hence you now have a boat excise tax waiting for you.
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In some states it will be a property tax instead of excise tax. Your boat will be noted as well on any property you own in the state.
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What I don't know?... Is what if in the physical address block you enter your boat name instead a street address.
I realize someone is going to comment....for example ..."it's a mailing address" such is true; you can have many mailing addresses but only one domicle address. Again it your responsibility to inform the state regarding this situation; otherwise they will use address and consider it to be your legal domicile address.
My concern is there are plenty enough fee's to pay and paying a tax here (when your not a legal citizen of the state) and you don't have a right to vote for or against said tax; is unconstitutional so how are they getting around this law?
I have an inquiry posted with the Department of Revenue,
Massachusetts but they won't tell me what law in M.G.L. so states a non-citizen of the state who cannot vote in the state can be levied a tax? Regardless others in the
Massachusetts government have been sincere; the DOR representative has been "willfully deceiving" "willfully misleading" and disclosed privileged information, which under their same M.G.L. laws such action is said to be "a civil fraud" here by a state worker. However they do it anyway because evidence is catch-22.
Meanwhile the inquiry contnues to be pushed off rather than answered; the it is a matter to contact the governors office staff and here explain what is a fair and reasonable inquiry and ask why no one can answer it.
Most likely ...the reason is they have no right, because it is unconstitutional, which is my guess.
WARNING: Never sign any tax that is your agreement and consent to keep paying it year after year.
Bob Beal
"Cornucopia"
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