Moose wrote: > I have read about a 40/60 split 40% heating and 60% Engine ie moving. > > Another problem is, again what I have read makes me believe it is the > boaters responsibilites and they decide what percentage will be Heating > and proplusion, if thats the case, then putting a sign up as Bruce has > said one Marina is going to do then as long as the boater is aware he is > buying for heating that should not be a problem for the Marina!!! but no > doubt this will be wrong.
I was chatting with the owner at Wheaton Aston when I filled up there back in September. He was saying that from discussions he had had with HMRC, it would be up to the boater to declare when filling up how many litres were for propulsion and how many for other purposes. The easiest approach seems to be to make an estimate of your engine's consumption in litres/hour, and then just keep a log of the total hours cruised between fill-ups. I think that as long as a reasonable amount of duty seems to be being paid by boaters generally then no one is going to worry too much about whether everyone's figures are precise. It's only if after the first year they find only a tiny percentage of duty has been paid that they will look again at enforcement - which would probably mean no allowance for non-propulsion use for anyone. Terry Streeter NB Arun - Stockton
