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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 |
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NELHA Transparency? 'Continues to Struggle with Sunshine'
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 3:31 PM :: 7162 Views :: Ethics, Small Business, Tax Credits
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In 2012, we found that after nearly 40 years of existence, NELHA had yet to live up to its creators’ vision....
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Sunday, May 3, 2015 |
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NextEra: Legalized Tax Fraud
By News Release @ 2:40 PM :: 7971 Views :: Environment, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...Total federal income tax breaks from 2008 through 2012: $4.2 billion....
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 |
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Politicians Paid so Navatek Can get $20M Play?
By Selected News Articles @ 10:47 PM :: 9004 Views :: Ethics, Tax Credits
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...77 separate contributions by Navatek or by employees linked to Navatek made to elected officials totaling $81,000....
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
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Your Electric Bill is Higher than you Think
By NCPA @ 2:27 PM :: 7099 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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...Consumers pay for electricity twice: once through monthly electricity bills and a second time through taxes that finance subsidies for inefficient wind and other energy producers....
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 |
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SB 555 - Increasing the Food/Excise Tax Credit
By News Release @ 3:38 PM :: 6930 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes, Cost of Living
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Hawaii levies the second highest tax burden in the country on its low-income families. A major reason for this is the General Excise tax....
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Thursday, April 16, 2015 |
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Final Act 221: Hoku Plant Cut Up, Pieces Auctioned off
By Selected News Articles @ 3:42 PM :: 8381 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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Built with your tax dollars, via crony capitalist Act 221 High Tech Tax Credits, Hawaii....
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Saturday, March 21, 2015 |
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HB145 Tobacco Industry Tax Credit Gut and Replace
By Selected News Articles @ 1:12 PM :: 7538 Views :: Agriculture, Higher Education, Tax Credits
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Did you know that Hawaii has a tobacco industry?
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 |
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Hawaii: The Place for "Really Crazy" Energy Ideas
By Selected News Articles @ 11:40 PM :: 6786 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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...Plenty of issues remain to be addressed, not least the safety implications of having kites weighing more than a tonne flying around on cables up to 310m long....
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 |
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Friday, March 13, 2015 |
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Update: Low Income Legislative Agenda
By News Release @ 11:00 PM :: 7578 Views :: Homelessness, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...Hawaii Appleseed is making solid progress advancing important legislation to benefit low-income people in our state....
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015 |
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Hawaii Open Budget: A bold step towards fiscal transparency
By News Release @ 5:28 PM :: 7637 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...a nonpartisan effort to make the state budgeting process accessible to the public by putting state budget facts and figures online, in real time....
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015 |
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Surprise: Poorest Obamacare Enrollees Face $530 IRS Tax Bill
By Americans for Tax Reform @ 2:27 PM :: 7125 Views :: Health Care, Tax Credits, Taxes
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Also in the H&R Block report is the news that the individual mandate penalty is averaging $172. This is likely to rise in future years....
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Sunday, January 11, 2015 |
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Earned Income Tax Credit – A Solution to Poverty?
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 4869 Views :: Tax Credits
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...According to a report by the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, it lifts more families out of poverty than any other federal policy....
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Friday, January 2, 2015 |
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Auditor: State Policies Create Barrier to Glass Recycling
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 4:58 PM :: 9615 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...the interaction between the advance disposal fee (ADF) and the deposit beverage container (DBC) programs creates inefficiencies in the recycling or down-cycling of glass....
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014 |
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Auditor: Unclear What Glass Recycling Program is Supposed to Accomplish
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 9:51 PM :: 9794 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Tax Credits, Taxes
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Where the 'Recycled' Glass Goes? -- Busted: Hee Family Tied to Massive Waste Dumping Scheme....
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Thursday, December 18, 2014 |
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Corruption: Al Hee Indicted on 13 Counts--Could Get 39 Years in Federal Prison
By News Release @ 3:10 PM :: 14388 Views :: DHHL, Politicians, Tax Credits
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This is happening now because Dan Inouye is dead. There will be more....
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Sunday, December 14, 2014 |
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NextEra: The Green Corruption Files
By Selected News Articles @ 6:20 PM :: 15021 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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NextEra paid just $88 million in taxes on earnings of nearly $7 billion. That’s a tax rate of just 1.25 percent when the statutory rate is 35 percent....
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014 |
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‘Green’ lobby pushes to extend lucrative tax breaks
By Selected News Articles @ 2:11 PM :: 6207 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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“Granting temporary privileges or punishment allows Congress to fund-raise on them over and over again.”
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Sunday, November 30, 2014 |
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The Tax Credit That Should Not Die
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 5238 Views :: Tax Credits
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Note to lawmakers: No touch!
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Sunday, October 26, 2014 |
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Ige's Pihana: Which Came First the Crony or the Capitalist?
By Andrew Walden @ 8:27 PM :: 11142 Views :: Hawaii History, Politicians, Tax Credits
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...it almost worked, until Goldman Sachs taught them all the meaning of "preferred stock"....
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Thursday, October 9, 2014 |
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Wind Industry Admits It Needs Handout to Compete
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:14 PM :: 6503 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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...The wind production tax credit, a generous $23 per-megawatt-hour tax credit the producer receives for 10 years, expired last year....
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Saturday, September 27, 2014 |
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Property Tax Hike? You Have Until Sept 30 to Get Out of It
By News Release @ 5:01 PM :: 7770 Views :: Honolulu County, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...September 30, 2014 deadline for three real property programs is approaching and urge those wishing to participate to submit the required documentation....
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Sunday, September 21, 2014 |
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Timing Isn't Everything: How to Lose Your Solar Tax Credit
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6882 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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This week’s illustration of how timing is important involves the Hawaii Renewable Energy Technologies credit....
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Monday, August 4, 2014 |
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Your Tax Dollars at Work: FlikMedia, Inc. Acquires Flikdate
By News Release @ 5:52 PM :: 5543 Views :: Ethics, Tax Credits
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...Flikdate is the recipient of HSDC Hi-Tech 'investment' money....
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Friday, July 18, 2014 |
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HSDC Tries To Justify Hi Tech Self-Dealing
By News Release @ 5:52 PM :: 7647 Views :: Ethics, Tax Credits
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...there was potential in Hawaii to find and invest in (get taxpayer money for) globally competitive startups (which are based in California)....
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014 |
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High Tech Development Corp still relying on carbon paper and typewriters
By Selected News Articles @ 2:20 AM :: 6045 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits
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HTDC still relying on carbon paper and typewriters to draft communications with the state, which she says causes more work in the end for her staff....
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Saturday, June 14, 2014 |
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Solar City: Tax Subsidies For Them, Big Bills For Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 2:43 PM :: 6857 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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Solar City collects for itself tax subsidies intended for its consumers, who are left vulnerable to sudden spikes in their electricity bills....
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014 |
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Encouraging ohana housing in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 3:16 PM :: 6522 Views :: Family, Tax Credits
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Over 11% of Hawaii households are multigenerational, the largest percentage in the United States....
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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DBEDT: Obama Orders Mainland to Follow Hawaii's Expensive Energy Policies
By News Release @ 4:28 PM :: 7085 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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Other states are being ordered to follow Hawaii's example and give lots of money to green energy scammers who in turn give campaign contributions to the politicians who made their scams possible...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Council on Revenues: Tax Revenue Will Decline for 2014 as Movie Moguls Grab Tax Credit Millions
By News Release @ 4:58 AM :: 5889 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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...The Act also increases the cap on the amount of the credit per production from $8 million to $15 million and moves the expiration date for the credit from January 1, 2016 to January 1, 2019....
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Saturday, May 31, 2014 |
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HSDC Gives Away Another $4.5M in 'HI Tech' Corporate Welfare
By News Release @ 5:40 AM :: 5903 Views :: Tax Credits
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...HSDC today announced the State of Hawaii’s $4.5 million commitment to Startup Capital Ventures II....
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Sunday, May 25, 2014 |
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Time for the Kapalama Terminal Credit
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5105 Views :: Tax Credits
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Let’s use the discussion over this credit to help us all determine what time it is....
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014 |
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Property Tax Exemptions Reduce Honolulu Tax Revenue $100M
By Natalie Iwasa @ 9:28 PM :: 6148 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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...You’ll never see it as a line item in the budget....
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Friday, April 25, 2014 |
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Study: Biofuels Worse for Environment Than Regular Gasoline
By NCPA @ 4:09 PM :: 8472 Views :: Energy, Environment, Agriculture, Tax Credits
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Biofuels made with corn residue actually release 7 percent more greenhouse gas....
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Friday, April 25, 2014 |
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Panos: Sopogy's Demise is a Huge Victory for Honest Engineering and the Taxpayer
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 1:05 AM :: 10723 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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Many well-known people such as Governors Lingle and Abercrombie, Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw, Blue Planet Foundation's Henk Rogers, and Hawaii's only billionaire Pierre Omidyar have Sopogy egg on their face....
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Thursday, April 24, 2014 |
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Why Your Boss Probably Isn't Speaking at This Conference
By Heritage Foundation @ 7:07 AM :: 4146 Views :: Tax Credits
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...Washington cronies dole out special treatment to certain companies....
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014 |
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UHERO: Managing a Grid with Green Energy
By UHERO @ 9:02 PM :: 6407 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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...a windfall gain for the typically wealthy households able to take advantage of the situation....
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Sunday, April 20, 2014 |
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C’mon, Mr Producer, Do You Even Know What All The Laws Are?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5399 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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One of the bills now making its way through the Legislature concerns the motion picture, digital media, and film production tax credit....
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014 |
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All Eyes Should be on the First Wind – PUC Affair
By Selected News Articles @ 5:27 PM :: 5910 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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This was actually Plan B, after an embarrassing failed attempt to go public in 2010....
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014 |
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For Sale Cheap: One More Bankrupt Alt-Energy Scheme
By News Release @ 4:41 PM :: 7039 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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Located in Kawaihae on the west side of the Big Island of Hawaii, 35 miles north of Kailua-Kona, the assets are being marketed in a sealed bid offering that closes at 5:00 p.m. (PT)on April 4....
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Sunday, March 2, 2014 |
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Well Then, How Do We Stimulate Business?
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 4729 Views :: Tax Credits
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A few weeks ago this column spoke out against tax credits....
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Sunday, February 23, 2014 |
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Can We Best Help the Poor by Making Their Lives Complicated?
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 7979 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes, Cost of Living
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Among the proposals being considered are a low-income credit; a food and excise tax credit; a low-income household renters’ credit; an earned income tax credit; and a special tax credit for seniors....
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Sunday, February 9, 2014 |
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You Like Tax Credits, Why Don’t We?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4488 Views :: Tax Credits
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Those who seek to enlarge or expand those credits at the legislature frequently find the Tax Foundation opposed. Why is that?
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Friday, February 7, 2014 |
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SB2153: Follow the Tax Credit Money
By Sen. Sam Slom @ 12:51 AM :: 4316 Views :: Tax Credits
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...“tax exclusions,” “tax exemptions,” “tax deferrals,” “preferential tax rates,” and “tax credits”....
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Friday, January 24, 2014 |
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Company Behind Kahuku Windfarm Fire Files Bankruptcy
By News Release @ 11:53 PM :: 7700 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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Xtreme Power...announced today that it filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11....
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Friday, January 24, 2014 |
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As Circuits Max Out, HECO Touts New Solar Installation Record
By News Release @ 11:26 PM :: 6144 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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A total of 17,609 solar installations with more than 129 megawatts capacity were added....
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Monday, January 20, 2014 |
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Progressive Tax Code Not Visible in Tax Expenditures
By NCPA @ 2:46 PM :: 6709 Views :: National News, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...high-income and low-income filers had large tax expenditures, while middle-income taxpayers had smaller expenditures....
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Thursday, January 9, 2014 |
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Jeff ‘The Solar Guy’ Davis Running for Hawaii Governor-- As Libertarian
By Andrew Walden @ 11:47 PM :: 6111 Views :: Politicians, Tax Credits
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...Jeff Davis has filled papers with the Campaign Spending Commission to form a campaign committee to run for governor....
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014 |
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Tax Credit Scammers Find a New Home in HSDC
By Andrew Walden @ 1:18 PM :: 7953 Views :: Tax Credits
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State retirees should be afraid, be very afraid....
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013 |
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Federal Wind PTC Tax Credit Expires
By Selected News Articles @ 9:35 PM :: 6564 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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When the PTC was last extended, in January 2013, Congress changed the criteria. A project only had to be in construction before the expiration date to be eligible for the tax credit....
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