Registering Fishing Boats

[Billfo]

I am now a happy owner of a vacation home on Table Rock Lake complete with my purchased & owned slip & lift:)

My Nebraska boat registration expired next month. The boat will not return to Nebraska ever again. Should I still renew in Nebraska (high taxes) or should I register in Missouri (must be cheaper)... Either way I dont think using the boat with an expired registration is a good idea. Whats your opinions...

[Dutch]

I am not sure that a nonresident can have a MO registration because of the title work connected with it. You can call a MO license bureau and find out for sure.

[Gilly]

My understanding is that you register them wherever you are registered to vote.

In other words your 'vacation home' usually isn't your permanent home.

[Billfo]

Nebraska taxes get ya commen & going !!!!

My understanding is that you register them wherever you are registered to vote.

In other words your 'vacation home' usually isn't your permanent home.

[Gilly]

Nebraska taxes get ya commen & going !!!!

Roger that.

What part of Nebraska are you in? We hang out @ Stockton but live in Papillion Ne. You planning on retiring @ TR?

[Rocky]

I am now a happy owner of a vacation home on Table Rock Lake complete with my purchased & owned slip & lift:)

My Nebraska boat registration expired next month. The boat will not return to Nebraska ever again. Should I still renew in Nebraska (high taxes) or should I register in Missouri (must be cheaper)... Either way I dont think using the boat with an expired registration is a good idea. Whats your opinions...

Billfo,

I don’t have an answer for MO but in Kansas and Arkansas, you register the item by where it is on January 1^st. I had boats in Kansas that were stored at a lake that was in a different County from the one I lived in and we paid taxes to the storage County and not the one we lived in. It was a hassle because every few years our home County would find out we had a boat registration but not paying taxes to them and send us a tax bill and we would have to file the paperwork to cancel the bill (assumed guilty until proven innocent). The County that the boat was stored in would send someone out on January 1^st to take down registration numbers at the storage facility and send tax bills to the owners to make certain they got their dues. I just purchased a 5^th wheel RV and storing it in Arkansas and we checked out with both Kansas and Arkansas and they both said it is where the RV is on January 1^st. is where you register. I recommend calling your Nebraska county appraiser and the Missouri county appraiser and get their take (trust but verify).

[Gilly]

I get double dinged....our atv' s are registered in Ne. but we have a cabin in Iowa and the DNR makes us 'register' them there too. It's all about the $.

[T-RockJaws]

I would think if you have a residence in MO and that is the only place the boat will be, you should be able to only register it in MO. Better check with the counties involved though. I am sure they will all want your money!

[Eagle Rock]

I am now a happy owner of a vacation home on Table Rock Lake complete with my purchased & owned slip & lift:)

My Nebraska boat registration expired next month. The boat will not return to Nebraska ever again. Should I still renew in Nebraska (high taxes) or should I register in Missouri (must be cheaper)... Either way I dont think using the boat with an expired registration is a good idea. Whats your opinions...

[Eagle Rock]

I am a Kansas legal resident as well as a 10 year homeowner on Table Rock. I have had boats registed in Missouri (Barry County) the entire time since they are docked/housed here at Big M Marina.

I beleive the taxes in Kansas rival those of Nebraska.

Here is the link to the Missouri Department of Revenue that answers your question:

http://dor.mo.gov/motorv/watercraft/

Good luck!