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John Kerry will pay if ‘taxes are owed’
Boston Herald ^ | July 24, 2010 | Gayle Fee & Laura Raposa

Posted on 07/24/2010 9:07:44 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

U.S. Sen. John Kerry, the owner of a new, super-luxe 76-foot yacht, is not dodging a six-figure Massachusetts tax bill by docking the Isabel in Rhode Island and will pony up to the state if “any taxes are owed,” a spokesman for the alleged tax-skipping skipper said.

And it appears the senior senator may be on the hook for more than $500,000 in state and local taxes because Kerry tied his toney tub up in Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket waters within six months of buying her.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: johnkerry; kerry; nottooswiftboat; taxes; taxevasion; yacht
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To: ConservativeStatement

and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!

21 posted on 07/24/2010 9:54:07 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: ConservativeStatement
If he pays up it will only be because he got busted. If he's so willing to be compliant now why didn't he contact the appropriate authorities earlier and determine his obligations?

Liberals: taxes are for the little people.

22 posted on 07/24/2010 9:57:44 AM PDT by Robwin
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To: ConservativeStatement

I gotta tell ya, I’m inspired by his example!!! I’ll pay any taxes I owe too and if I forget I’m sure I’ll be reminded with a threatening letter.


23 posted on 07/24/2010 9:58:30 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Ooh-Ah
Exactly right. Before Kerry latched on to the BIG Mama Teat he was sleeping in his car.
24 posted on 07/24/2010 10:02:39 AM PDT by JPG (Sarah Spitz? No, she swallowed the Obama agenda.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
U.S. Sen. John Kerry, the owner of a new, super-luxe 76-foot yacht, is not dodging a six-figure Massachusetts tax bill by docking the Isabel in Rhode Island and will pony up to the state if “any taxes are owed,”

What a weasel statement, of course no taxes are owed that is why he is docking in RI instead of MA! Liberals think they can BS their way out of anything.

25 posted on 07/24/2010 10:07:28 AM PDT by calex59
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To: oh8eleven

“Couldn’t find an American builder?”

He didn’t want any of that inferior union workmanship on his boat.”


26 posted on 07/24/2010 10:07:41 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop thinking about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: ConservativeStatement

In the early 1990’s there was a luxury tax on yachts that about killed the industry.
Did Kerry vote for it?
Was he for it, before he was against it?
No one left in the US to build his play toy?


27 posted on 07/24/2010 10:13:18 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I have been waiting several years for the opportunity to hear him say “Tuh-RAY-zuh” again.


28 posted on 07/24/2010 10:15:39 AM PDT by The_Sword_of_Groo (Counting the days until the US gets to apologize for Obama)
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To: ConservativeStatement

He was for taxes then he was against taxes if he had to pay, now he is for them when he gets outed.

Rich leftists are the most selfish people on the planet.

Lowlife scum he is.


29 posted on 07/24/2010 10:18:54 AM PDT by dforest
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To: ConservativeStatement

First is there any doubt that Kerry would not have ponied up if his tax hypocrisy hadn’t been exposed? Second, note his parsed response...”IF” any taxes are owed. I’m sure his tax people are looking for every loophole.


30 posted on 07/24/2010 10:27:49 AM PDT by The Great RJ (The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
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To: oh8eleven

They are probably all union:)

“As I said yesterday, the Isabel is based in Newport at the Newport Shipyard for longterm maintenance, upkeep and charter purposes, not tax reasons”

I’d be pissed if I was a MA worker and my senator basically said I wasn’t good enough.


31 posted on 07/24/2010 10:31:29 AM PDT by ebersole
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To: ConservativeStatement

“IF”? There is no “if” here, idiot-do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do-Kerry.....


32 posted on 07/24/2010 10:54:44 AM PDT by cranked
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To: ConservativeStatement
also sailed into Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard, according to sources. Kerry was seen coming ashore off the Isabel on the town dock July 16 as he made his way to an event at the Harborview Hotel .

Under law, if a boat owner berths the vessel in Massachusetts waters within six months of purchasing the boat, there’s a “presumption of use,” and the owner must fork over the 6.25 percent sales tax to the commonwealth. Local excise taxes also are due.

Oops.

33 posted on 07/24/2010 10:57:47 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Unemployment has DOUBLED since the Democrats took control of congress)
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To: darkwing104

Turbo-Tax needs to add a yacht excise tax module.


34 posted on 07/24/2010 11:01:34 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: ConservativeStatement

Half a mill is more than enough to give Lurch a long face.
And Ta-ray-zaaa is going to be plenty upset, too.

35 posted on 07/24/2010 11:02:03 AM PDT by Zakeet (The Big Wee Wee -- rapidly moving America from WTF to SNAFU to FUBAR)
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To: Poison Pill
The story changed since yesterday. Yesterday they were saying Kerry didn't owe the money as what he did to avoid the tax was perfectly legal by keeping the boat in Rhode Island. As a Democrat he's entitled to not pay taxes on fancy stuff anyhow. Right? ;-)

However, the fact that he had indeed taken the boat to Edgartown and anchored it there for however a brief moment in time, puts him on the hook for the MASS tax as their law says if it is birthed anywhere in MASS within 6mos of purchase they assume the boat will be used/kept in state and therefore subject to the tax.

The question now is whether Kerry will whine about paying the half-mil in taxes or suck it up and plunk it down knowing that any whining on his part will hurt the Democrat Party.

36 posted on 07/24/2010 11:03:51 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Unemployment has DOUBLED since the Democrats took control of congress)
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To: Vendome

The only convenience is not having to pay taxes. He spends his summers on Nantucket. There is no good reason why he can’t keep his boat there. Nantucket boat basin holds boats a whole lot bigger than Kerry’s.


37 posted on 07/24/2010 11:08:35 AM PDT by surrey
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To: oh8eleven
"couldn't find an American builder"

One of the finest yacht builders in America is the Hinckley Company right there in good old Maine.

Kerry wanted the boat built cheap.

38 posted on 07/24/2010 11:20:34 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: bitterohiogunclinger
"you will notice they are always registered in tax free states"

Offshore tax havens too. Here in Annapolis you see a lot of the big boys stopping over on their way to winter in the Caribbean.I have seen flags for Bermuda, Panama, and Liberia among others.

39 posted on 07/24/2010 11:24:19 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Hoist by his own freakin’ petard.


40 posted on 07/24/2010 11:27:09 AM PDT by behzinlea (a)
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