{"id":1094,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:15:51","slug":"registration-and-vat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/registration-and-vat\/","title":{"rendered":"Registration and VAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"left\">Hi. We are Dutch inhabitants, living in the Netherlands. We are building a 53ft sailingyacht by a Dutch yachtbuilder. Our purpose is to go living onboard and sailing all over the world. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"left\">1: Is it possible to registrate this yacht in the Channel Islands or elsewhere in the world. <br \/> 2: Is it legal that the Dutch yachtbuilder can sell to us -or to our company- this yacht without paying VAT in the Netherlands or elsewhere in the EC. ( an VAT-0 option) <br \/> 3: Is it necessary to start a company out there and how do we do this<br \/> 4: Do you have experience with people who make arrangements for this <br \/> 5: What is necessary to do so <br \/> 6: What are the costs <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"left\">Jaap en Renee from the Netherlands <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p> Hi Jaap: You will find a discussion of &#8220;flags of convenience&#8221; in Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia. As to your specific questions, Holland, VAT, etc. it is probably best to check with a tax advisor familiar with your regulations. There are many companies that handle arrangements for flags of convenience. Often you are required to have a corporation, but some jurisdictions now allow individuals to hold title to the boat&#8211;I think this is the case now in the Virgin Islands. Regards&#8211;Steve Dashew <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. We are Dutch inhabitants, living in the Netherlands. We are building a 53ft sailingyacht by a Dutch yachtbuilder. Our <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/registration-and-vat\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-general-cruising-faqs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36522,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/36522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}