>Seems the motorhome lobby gets us exempted from all those rules.
Look
>at the aged drives with BIG BIG BLuebirds. LONG and over 26000
and
>pulling the Caddie. Air-brakes and all .. no rules no scales
and a
>car license will get you in one.
Not only that, but if
you buy a motorhome with borrowed money, you
get to deduct the interest on your income tax just as though it
were a house! What a lobby!
Roger, the Sundowner dealer in Loudon, Tennessee, was telling
me a story about how cheap it is to buy trailers in Tennessee.
I wanted to cross-check with you to see whether what he was
telling me was true--not to mention legal. (Although TN has no
income tax, all the county sales taxes are *huge* (6-8%!)
and
on purchases that large really make a difference)
He said:
1. Because my brother-in-law is a Tennessee resident and has a
real farm to boot, I could give his address as my address and
register the trailer as a TN farm vehicle. As such, the trailer
would
be entirely exempt from sales tax.
2. I only have to pay $80 or so to get a lifetime TN license
plate
for the trailer (as opposed to Massachusetts, where I have to
pay $113 every year to relicense my trailer).
The trailer would never be in my brother-in-law's or his farm's
name, it would be in mine.
Too good to be true?
Linda B. Merims
Massachusetts, USA