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    Default Enjoy the non-taxed boat trips while you can…

    Congress is about to let the States place a sales tax on all goods and services afloat:

    H.R. 3619: Coast Guard Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011
    Title III - Shipping and Navigation
    Section 301 -
    Amends the Act commonly known as the Rivers and Harbors Appropriations Act of 1884 to authorize the levy of nonfederal sales taxes on goods and services provided to or by vessels or watercraft (other than vessels or watercraft primarily engaged in foreign commerce) that operate on U.S. navigable waters.

    TITLE III—SHIPPING AND
    7 NAVIGATION
    8 SEC. 301. GOODS AND SERVICES.
    9 Section 4(b) of the Act of July 5, 1884, commonly
    10 known as the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of
    11 1884 (33 U.S.C. 5(b)), is amended—
    12 (1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of paragraph
    13 (2)(C);
    14 (2) by striking the period at the end of para
    15 graph (3) and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and
    16 (3) by adding at the end the following:
    17 ‘‘(4) sales taxes on goods and services provided
    18 to or by vessels or watercraft (other than vessels or
    19 watercraft primarily engaged in foreign com
    20 merce).’’.

    http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-...3619eh.txt.pdf

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    Every time you turn around they are nickle and diming us to death!

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    So a $50 party boat fare will be $53.50? Lame.

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    Next thing you know they will be taxing the fish you take off the boat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pebbles View Post
    Next thing you know they will be taxing the fish you take off the boat.
    That's crazy, did any of those genuises do a cost-benefit analysis and project how many fewer people will go fishing because of that?

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