{"id":15891,"date":"2011-04-04T18:25:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T23:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=15891"},"modified":"2015-10-16T11:44:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T16:44:52","slug":"how-do-you-handle-the-vat-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/how-do-you-handle-the-vat-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you handle the VAT-problem&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;when staying longer at the same place, for example when you left Wind Horse in UK during winter 2009? As far as I&#8217;m informed, VAT(possibly plus customs fees &amp; extra taxes) is charged if you stay &gt; 3 months in the EC. How do other countries deal with this? If you want to talk about it: was VAT actually paid for your ships, or is it possible to circumnavigate the whole problem?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Hi Harald:<\/p>\n<p>In the UK there is a very specific procedure to be followed, which the good folks at Berthons handled for us. They notify customs that the vessel is in their custody.However, there is also a specific time limit &#8211; the exact time frame of which I do not recall &#8211; after which the boat must be out of the EU or VAT will be charged. I think it might be 18 months for non-EU residents. But this should be checked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;when staying longer at the same place, for example when you left Wind Horse in UK during winter 2009? As <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/how-do-you-handle-the-vat-problem\/\">&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15891"}],"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=15891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35922,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15891\/revisions\/35922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}