| In Illinois I was accosted re use tax on the project bought from NJ... incomplete. Never had an Airworthiness Certificate, and therefore was not an 'airplane', legally. However the original builder reserved an N-number. Since the revenooers tend to think about airplane like they do cars, the 'registration' sounded to them like the project was an 'airplane'. But it is not evidence or Title, and so states that it is NOT, right on the registration thingey. It took some organizing of thoughts and records, and a trip to Springfield, and an hour of explaining the whole thing to the revenue people, that until a project gets an Airworthiness Certificate it is not an 'airplane', and registration number is not Title, and that all I had bought in NJ was a box of parts that might never become an airplane,... as indeed is the case with somewhere between every three to ten projects... never get finished, and are wasted money and effort forever. The Use Tax is pretty much the same as Sales Tax, and is payable by the buyer of a finished and legal 'airplane'... so the revenue people will get their tax when somebody buys the airplane which I created as its legal manufacturer. They understood. When N211AL is sold, the buyer will have to pay Sales Tax. And that's the story from IL... at least for now. Hope that helps....
Terrence N211AL. Goin' on 90 hours... still need to get the cooling drag down.
Any Arizonans out there who can enlighten me about aircraft taxes in Arizona? According to my web research, experimentals and homebuilts pay an annual $20 registration fee. I did not see anything about sales tax.
My Lancair is not finished -- there is no registration certificate, no airworthiness certificate, merely a collection of items that is beginning to resemble an aircraft. Before I do something stupid like call the state of Arizona and say "this is my name and address and my unfinished Lancair is in a hangar at this airport, do I owe you any money?" I'd like to find out what the true story is...
- Rob Wolf
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