Boat and Trailer Title and Registration

[Monkey Butler]

Originally Posted by macojoe

Here in Ma. you pay:

One time 5% sales tax

Reg for boat, Good for 2 years

Length Fee Under 16 ft $40 16 to 26 ft $60 26 to 40 ft $80 40 ft plus$100

Reg for you trailer, $40 good for 1 year

Title for the boat: $25

Title for trailer $50

Excisze tax every year

Thanks for reminding me MJ!

Here is my pet peeve. If I trailer to saltwater anywhere from Gloucester to points south I need to take the Mass Pike (I-90). The toll runs anywhere from $3.25 to $6.25 each way depending on what exit I take. The rub it in your nose part is that Mass says that you can get a refund for the gas tax that you paid at the pump because it is supposedly targeted to roads and so is the toll. The paper work required to recover the tax is absurd. I figure that I spend over $1200 a year on this toll road between business and pleasure on top of the gas tax.

Everybody here is paying a tax on the fuel for their boat that is targeted for roads but how many care? We also pay for fishing and hunting licences etc. that most people don't even think about. This is really bugging me because I just looked at my phone bill online and seen that $9.60 of a $ 40.00 phone bill was taxes. Death by a thousnads cuts?

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