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yes i researched this. I was looking at a cs36 in Kingston Ont. and the broker said that if they sold the boat to me for export then I didnt need to pay provincial or federal tax in canada. (He also said that not all brokers were familiar with the necessary paperwork but he had done it before and knew it could be done fairly easily) Of course, before you sail it away you would need to document it in the US and pay whatever state tax you would owe wherever you live. The key for NAFTA rules of origin is that any boat that was ORIGINALLY BUILT in a NAFTA country can be exported to another NAFTA country free of import tax. That means any boat built in the USA or Canada (or Mexico if they built any boats) can be bought in either country and all you are comparing is the price in whatever dollars you want to compare them in. (Yachtworld will do all the conversions for you). I believe that if you were to buy a boat in Canada that was, for example, originally built in France, then you would have a more complicated situation which would mean that the rules for importing boats from France would apply, but I am not sure how or if they would net out Canadian tax already paid in that case.
Of course, there are transport costs but if you already live on a Great Lake then that is nothing. In fact, I would have looked forward to sailing a boat from Canada back across to NY.
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