buying a boat vat not paid
Re: Taxes for buying second hand, VAT not paid, boat in Martinique. Used to be 17.5% of purchase price... though have known customs to refuse this and have vessel valued by surveyor at market price in UK... Friend got stung like this on a $25K boat that got valued at 35K....e: Taxes for buying second hand, VAT not paid, boat in Martinique. Nick and Goboatingnow might be both correct. I handled the affairs of a foreign boatowner and a foreign registry. The VAT was exempted for something like over a year.