I'm not sure what this will accomplish. If you owe tax from prior years, then it's due regardless if you move out of state now.

This is only correct if the boat is purchased from a dealer. If it's purchased from a private party, use tax is due within 30 days of purchase. Do a google earch for IL RUT-75.

We're in CA and pay sales tax on a purchase, and property tax every year to the county where the the boat resides on Jan 1 each year.

you are correct,and i sent them a check and a copy of a hand written receipt signed by myself& the seller,i will not pay the tax a second time,they lost my first check,so i sent them a second one,wich was cashed,what a bunch of facked up people,i hate the state of illinois.

when i was in the army I bought a truck there and it was tagged in Va for about six months. Those bastards tried sending me taxes for 3-4 years even though the thing was registered in NY. They even sent me statements after the truck was gone until I called and told them not to send me crap I dont live in Va or own the truck. They tried givng me some speech on something, I told them thats fine do what you want I will never own anything or live in Va again so good luck with whatever you try and do.

That is way 90,000 people moved out of Illinois last year

My buddy finally got some info on why he was audited. The state is saying that what they have determined to be the fair market value of the 3 boats he has bought since 2006 to be greater than the purchase price of the boats and they want to collect 6.25% tax on that difference. Not sure how the state is determining what the boat's fair market value was at the time of purchase. Obviously it was not reflective of the soft market over the last few years.

Wow! Sure glad I live here in the backwoods state of Arkansas! I see now where Barry got his idea of tax the hell out of those who work for a living to pay for those bastards who don't want to work! Good luck guys!

Chances are they compared it to 3 other boats sold in the state that year. Like I said earlier your buddy played the game of saying he paid 500 bucks for something that was worth 10k.

You arent going to beat the state. Government has hired more bean counters than ever. The days of scamming the system are over. Although I do think that its BS to have to keep paying salest tax on an item that is used 2-3-4 times overs. Somebody brilliant like earlier will say just most, well thats economical. And you can fight it, but it will cost more to fight it than to just pay it.

And whoever said 90k people left because of this, come on now you serious.

Sounds like you may be an auditor?

Same here a couple months ago. Got a letter saying they needed proof of paid sales tax.....I was like WTF?

Sent them a copy of the CASHED CHECK that I provided to the state for my sales tax.

Got another letter about 2 weeks later saying thanks, but that wasn't good enough...they wanted a bill of sale from the private seller, along with something showing how I paid for the boat...savings withdrawl, cancelled check to the sellers, loan documents, money order receipt, etc.

I guess they didn't believe that I bought my boat for the deal I got it for.

You clearly don't know what you're talking about. Pretty ballsy to accuse Knot's buddy of fraud...
My transaction was 100% legit, and I was still audited. I got a steal on my boat, and they apparently didn't believe me until I furnished them the proof they wanted. They've since sent me a letter saying that my audit file has been closed since I provided them with the proof they needed.