Be careful in Maine

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From Aero News Net, an update on Maine and the Airplane Tax; also it has some interesting info, including a supposed similar requirement in Washington (State of, not DC; please don't call it "Washington State"), where you're taxed if you have the airplane there for more than 90 days, and Florida, where you can be taxed if the airplane spends any amount of time there within the first six months.

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?C...-60194ad7070e&

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Originally Posted by theflyboy1

I live in NH and those Maine folks will do just about anything to make a buck. Alcohol in NH is significantly cheaper than in Maine and Mass (as it is controlled by our government, in a good way though), so many folks near the border will travel across to our state liquor stores to buy booze. The Maine highway patrol would sit in the parking lot across the street from the liquor store and write down the license plates of Maine vehicles. Then they were either taxed or fined, not sure which, for bringing alcohol across the border. NH cops caught on and would give the Maine cops tickets for loitering. Sweet revenge...

Not sure if the rest of this is true, but...

The Maine cops, tired of the tickets, would park just across the border in sight of the store parking lot and would use binoculars to get the license plates.

NH then built a fence.