sales tax on used boat in Louisiana

I don’t think there’s a sales tax on a used boat.

There was one temporarily a couple years ago buy I think it’s gone.

Others are correct. Only tax on the trailer. Separate bill of sale will make things easier.

If its less than 10 years old or more than 10 years old ?

No tax on a used boat, but you might have to fill out the tax form and have it stamped by the dept of revenue. I bought a used boat from Arkansas and registered it in Louisiana last year. I had to have that tax form stamped by the state office and the local office dept of revenue before WLF would register it. I'm sure you already know this, but the trailer needs a title to be registered in LA, not just a BOS. Boat/motor just need the notarized BOS and the previous registration. Previous registration needs to match the sellers name on the BOS. There are ways around this like with a Justice of the Peace, but this is the easiest.

It’s just the trailers. Lots of 40 thousand dollar boats are sitting on $100 trailers according to the bill of sale.

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I think there was a sales tax for just a few months. Talk about bad luck if you bought a boat in that time period.

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Talk about such a scam. I bought a used boat in the period that had the tax, I went to register it but the tax was revoked and they still made me pay it bc of the sales date on the notarized title. I was FUMING.