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Massachusetts Hits Yacht Owner With Use Tax

Massachusetts Hits Yacht Owner With Use Tax

When he purchased Odyssey the insurance paperwork indicated that he would be docking it in New Bedford (The famous whaling port just across Buzzard’s Bay where the fellow who you were to call Ishmael shipped out with Captain Ahab).  Documentation with the Coast Guard and Homeland Security indicated Fairhaven was the home port.  Probably worst was that Fairhaven was emblazoned on the stern of the yacht.  And of course there was no use tax paid to Florida, which Mr. Brodsky had testified was the yacht’s intended home.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.