Montana LLCs

[Terry Neal]

Well put Ryan. All the people in the RV industry, as well as RV
owners, in Montana watch this continued dispute closely. Our Attorney
General is not budging one inch with the other states on this subject.
He is charged with seeing that the Montana State Code is applied
consistently to all entities that are registered in the state. This
includes LLCs, which are perfectly legal as indicated.



Terry Neal

Bozeman, MT

82 PT40





Ryan Wright wrote:

I'd like to read the actual case notes on a few of these, to see
what

people did wrong. Seems to me it's perfectly legal to register a

company in any state you so choose, and to assign assets to that

company, which would naturally pay the taxes set forth by the state in

which the company was registered. I wonder when and if Montana will

get embroiled in a lawsuit with Colorado over this. Colorado is

effectively filing criminal charges against Montana based LLCs whose

owners reside in Colorado, even though, it seems, the LLCs were

perfectly legal in Montana. I hope one of the people in question

appeals this to the federal level. A state that thinks it can collect

taxes from residents on business property registered to an out of

state business is, quite frankly, over the line.



Yeah, I know they probably all did it purely to avoid taxes, but

that's neither here nor there. If the LLC was setup legally, then the

operation is legal. For Colorado to attack Montana businesses in this

fashion seems more illegal than what the owners did. We can argue all

we want over whether this is "moral", I personally have no problem

with folks concocting elaborate schemes to legally keep more of their

own hard earned money from the government.



Anyway, would be very interesting to read the case notes and the full

text of the laws they were charged with breaking.



-Ryan



On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Don Bradner <"bluethunder%40arcatapet.com">
wrote:

> The use of a Montana LLC to register a motorhome (by a non-Montana
resident)

> has been the source of a lot of debate for years. I know that
there have

> been at least a couple of Birds for sale in the past two years
where the

> seller has stated that it was Montana registered, and actively
promoted such

> as a big money saver. So, I thought it might be worth noting here
that

> various RV groups are all abuzz with the news that the state of
Colorado has

> gone after a number of residents with such an arrangement. 12 with
criminal

> prosecutions, 122 others with civil.

>

> One of the myriad of stories about it can be found here:

> http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_9333908

>