Vote YES Amendment 6 in Florida

Notice to Florida Voters.
Amendment 6 is on the ballot to help the marine industry stay alive in Florida. Currently, county tax appraisors are required to value a property at 'highest and best" use. For a waterfront boat yard or marina, the property might be valued instead as a condo site, and the taxes could be very high. Amendment 6 requires that for working waterfront, the property be taxed at actual use of the property.

For more details see www.saveourwaterfronts.org

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VOTE YES ON AMENDMENT 6

Here is a letter from BOAT US about the amendment.

Help Preserve Florida's Working Waterfronts

Dear BoatUS Member,

In recent years dozens of Florida wet-slip marinas, waterfront dry stack storage facilities and boat service yards have been squeezed out of business by huge increases in real estate taxes, leaving you and your fellow boaters with fewer and fewer places to keep your boats and higher slip fees and storage costs.

Why is this happening? Because the current property appraisal system in Florida forces counties to apply "highest and best use" value to waterfront business property, not current use value. That means the businesses we boaters rely on are taxed as if they were high-end condominiums or waterfront resorts. You can help change that at the polls on November 4th:

A "Yes" vote on Amendment 6 will bring down the property taxes on the following marine working waterfronts to reflect the property's current use:

Marinas and docks open to the public for water access and recreational uses;
Public vessel launches into navigable inland and coastal waterways;
Commercial fishing facilities;
Water-dependent marine manufacturing facilities;
Marine vessel construction and repair facilities.
BoatUS supports Amendment 6 and we hope you will too on Nov 4. We need your help to get the 60% voter approval required to pass this very important amendment.

For more information: www.saveourwaterfronts.com

Please feel free to share this with your boating and fishing friends.

Margaret Podlich
Vice President of Government Affairs
GovtAffairs@BoatUS.com

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