Advice welcome for Newbie

So I might have already made one mistake, would like to NOT make another. What about campground books and groups? Which are the best campground books to buy and who is the best travel group to join. Already belong to AAA and AARP, who else should I join?

How ironic I've dealt with the same states. Living in Florida for 30 years we never paid tangible property tax on vehicles. Then moving to VA seemed Fla didnt really care the vehicles were gone, now moving out of Va was a totally different story as of course all they wanted was there tax money. So when I got a bill on taxes months after I'd already moved from VA, I fought with them. So rule now seems to be until you retag your vehicles in another state, you keep paying the previous state. CT tells me until I send them my tags back, I will keep paying CT taxes on them, Va was similar and because I'd never had any problems just moving from Fla. (the easiest state so far) I just thought it was the norm. I wont make that mistake again. But I'm anxious to get everything moved from the state I'm in and cut ties completely because once I leave, I'll never come back, so why should they keep bleeding me dry? Oh I'm sorry, that's what most of the states seem to do. lol lol

luvmydogs wrote:
lol lol Well Philly, now i have to ask how do you know? lol................

Okay, I wasn't going to bore everyone with the details. In VA, motor vehicles, boats and RVs are taxed each year (personal property tax) based on where they are "garaged." I lived in one county and my boat was kept at a marina in a different county which taxed boats at a lower rate than my domicile county, but there was nothing my domicile county could do about that. But, if I tried to say my car was garaged in the other county to evade the higher taxes of my domicile county, but I was working and commuting from or in my domicile county on a daily basis, there was no way to legitimately claim it was garaged elsewhere.

I moved to FL in Feb 2013 with my truck and lived in my FW for six months, with no intent to reside again in VA. I bought a house in FL and returned VA for a week to pack out the old house. I considered I officially changed my domicile and "garaged" my vehicles in FL, but I didn't title and register them, nor get a FL driver's license, until June 2013. That's between me and FL and VA should have no complaint, right? Nay, nay stated the trolls in VA. Although not specified in VA Code, the VA AG has opined the "situs" of a vehicle is presumed to be somewhere in VA in the absence of new title and registration in another state, and yes, some states do communicate with one another.

Again, your LLC does not appear to be the problem. I still own real estate in VA and have a VA LLC for another bsiness purpose, but that doesn't make me a VA resident. I still think you need to at least get some legal advice.

luvmydogs wrote:
Any advice on how to do all this would be greatl appreciate.

Move to the LLC state and conduct your business.
It is not a big deal if it is legit business not just for tax avoidance.

lol lol Well Philly, now i have to ask how do you know? lol
We arent going to have stuff registered in a bunch of state. The state we'll have to pay income tax too and have a mailbox in and get insurance in is the state that once we pull away, we'll never come back. And as soon as we find a home where ever that may be, we will register everything there, but there's no way to do that when I dont know what state that will be in. It's narrowed down to 3, but it all depends on how long it takes to find a house we want, and from past experience, that's not a quick thing. Again, I guess I'm just not sure how I can legally have an LLC and then have someone else come after me. Like I said, we're Newbies and just learning the ropes. Just for the record, tax evasion is illegal, tax avoidance is not. It's also not the only reason for the LLC.

The problem is not that you are registering it in Montana. The problem is you formed an LLC in order to register it in Montana even though you do not live there. The LLC is a form of business and should have a "business" purpose. Saving money on a taxes for a personal purchase is not a business purpose. Many get away with this, a few do not. You may also find it more difficult to get insurance as a business now owns your RV.

luvmydogs wrote:
We may wind up buying a house in Montana so it seemed to likely choice. If its legal to have the LLC how can another state say its not? I dont get it?

The LLC is not necessarily an issue but I can't speak to that since I don't know your situation. Bottom line is you cannot be a resident at large. You have to have roots in one of the 50 states. You establish a domicile, perhaps by home ownership or renting, having a mailing address there, pay whatever taxes are required, have your driver's license, title and register your vehicles, hell, even a library card and local bank. It's not good to have your stuff spread over multiple states and the last thing you need in retirement is an aggressive state coming after you for taxes it believes you owe. Don't ask how I know LOL.

If you're thinking of establishing an LLC solely for the purpose of evading taxes you're taking a chance of being wrong with the law. There is a difference between tax evasion and avoidance. There's nothing wrong with avoiding taxes through legal means, but evasion is generally considered illegal and I would encourage you to speak with a tax attorney and/or CPA rather than hearing from some folks here about "how they did it."

Thanks 2 gypsies. I dont own a home anywhere and the state we are in now renting, when we leave we are never coming back. So if I have the rv in the drive for 30-60 days before we leave, packing it to leave, how can anyone penalize me for that? If the LLC was illegal, I doubt very much I could have done it OR gotten a tag. Your right I had to register it somewhere and since we're headed west, what would have been the point in registering it in a state we are leaving?

Ron3rd wrote:
MONTANA LOOKING TO CRACK DOWN ON RV TAX EVASION

Just say'n.....

This article is because the owner of the LLC garages his RV in Massachusetts and has a home there. That's illegal. That's tax invasion.

The OP does NOT have a home anywhere; therefore, LLCs are perfectly legal. Without owning a home you need to register vehicles somewhere.

That's the big difference in legal or not. If you own a home somewhere else you better check out your LLC plans very carefully.

There are many ways that LLCs are legal.

MONTANA LOOKING TO CRACK DOWN ON RV TAX EVASION

Just say'n.....