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California Cracks Down on Montana LLCs

John Draneas

“Trevor” was surprised when a California state investigator and two sheriff’s deputies rang his doorbell. They were armed with a search warrant authorizing them to search his garage and to seize his cell phone. The garage search located exactly what they knew would be there — a high-dollar sports car with Montana license plates. The…

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John Draneas
John practices law in the Portland, OR, suburb of Lake Oswego, where he focuses on tax and estate planning, business organizations and transactions, and representation of collector-car owners. He is a past president of the Oregon region of the Porsche Club of America and served as the chairman of the PCA’s 2006 parade. His collection includes two Porsches, a Ferrari, an Alfa, a Lotus, a BMW daily driver, a John Deere tractor — and one increasingly famous Jaguar E-type. This month’s “You Write, We Read” on p. 20 is full of SCMer advice on whether Draneas should restore his Jag.

2 responses to “California Cracks Down on Montana LLCs”

  1. Steve Tomlinson Avatar
    Steve Tomlinson

    My father ran into the same problem when he arrived in California waters in the 1990’s. He was hanging/living aboard in San Diego and once a month he’d drop down into Mexico for a week, then return to his anchorage.

  2. michael butterworth Avatar
    michael butterworth

    Living in WA we see this all the time with car purchased and having Oregon plates to avoid WA sales tax. Buy a car in Oregon pay no sales tax and put a PO box in the state for mail and drive it into WA. This too is seeing a thing of the past. Death and Taxes just saying.

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