When Tom & I lived aboard, we also used a mail forwarding address for our dirver's licenses, documentation, and everything else. We had a choice of FL or NH. Both those states allowed you to file a form stating that you intended to make that state your domicile. Legal precedent was established in FL that this made you eligible to vote. We requested absentee ballots in order to vote.
Of course, you also had to pay any appropriate taxes to that state. FL had an intangibles tax that did not amount to much, and no income tax. NH did not tax individual wages but did tax dividends over a certain amount - I think it was $2,000 or $3,000 at the time. It took some effort and I spent a fair bit of time investigating this at the time before choosing FL as our domicile. My accountant and others told me that as a US citizen, I had to pick a state, even though I was never in one state long enough during the year to qualify as a resident. Given that I no longer owned land to tie me to a state, I figured I might as well pick the state that gave me the best deal. Because you're already out of the country, this may be difficult for you to arrange now. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Bradshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:52 AM Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] NEW DHS & USCG requirement if you have a personalUSCGlicense ...> BTW, our _only_ U.S. address is a mail forwarding address and we live on > our boat outside the country. We can _not_ vote from this address for > _any_ election since it is a _business_ address. We use this address on > our drivers license too... _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
