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Friday, October 27, 2017 |
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Corporate Taxes -- Hawaii Ranks 14th
By Tax Foundation @ 3:26 AM :: 6211 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Taxes
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...Hawaii dropped from 11th for 2017 to 14th for 2018....
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Thursday, October 26, 2017 |
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IRS Admits Harassment of Maui TEA Party Group, Apologizes
By News Release @ 5:19 PM :: 7102 Views :: Ethics, Taxes, TEA Party
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...In Proposed Settlement, IRS Admits Wrongdoing, Apologizes for Targeting Tea Party and Conservative Groups....
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Sunday, October 22, 2017 |
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DoTax Leaves Fewer Callers in the Dust
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 5585 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Did DOTAX Turn the Corner on Customer Service?....
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Thursday, October 19, 2017 |
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Moody's: Hawaii has Already Collected the Taxes for Next Recession
By Selected News Articles @ 9:47 AM :: 5465 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Hawaii has enough in cash reserves to weather next recession, report says....
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017 |
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Business Taxes: Hawaii Ranks 27th
By News Release @ 4:37 PM :: 5601 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Taxes
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...The State Business Tax Climate Index is a measure of how well states structure their tax systems....
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017 |
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Rep Andria Tupola to Host Hawaii Tax Conference
By News Release @ 3:14 PM :: 4356 Views :: Taxes
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...with speakers from the Reason Foundation, Tax Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trusts to inform the public on ways we can solve many of our fiscal problems and make our economy better....
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Sunday, October 15, 2017 |
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Incentives for Retirement Savings
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4055 Views :: Taxes
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...During the past few months, the Tax Review Commission has been busy at work....
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Thursday, October 12, 2017 |
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Kiplinger: Hawaii Taxes 7th Highest in USA
By News Release @ 7:25 PM :: 4966 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...and this is before the legislature raised the TAT and increased the Income Tax....
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Thursday, October 12, 2017 |
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State and Local Taxation Per Capita: Hawaii Takes $5,705
By Tax Foundation @ 2:20 PM :: 4358 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Hawaii has the 8th highest amount of taxation per capita in the USA....
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Sunday, October 8, 2017 |
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If You're Still Paying Use Tax on Amazon Purchases--Stop
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5181 Views :: Taxes
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...those who buy things from Amazon and have been paying Use Tax can stop....
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Sunday, October 1, 2017 |
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Fritz v. Department of Taxation, and Why You Should Care
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4831 Views :: Ethics, Taxes
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Over the past several months, there has been a court fight brewing that could have changed how the Department of Taxation lobbies for legislation....
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Thursday, September 28, 2017 |
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Hawaii Excise Taxes: $885 per Capita--3rd Highest in USA
By Tax Foundation @ 4:15 PM :: 4801 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Excise taxes are particular taxes levied on specific goods or activities....
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Saturday, September 23, 2017 |
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DLNR wants to triple fees for commercial marine licenses
By News Release @ 2:17 AM :: 4928 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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The hearings will be held at the following times and locations....
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Friday, September 22, 2017 |
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How High Are Property Tax Collections Where You Live?
By Tax Foundation @ 3:19 PM :: 4520 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Hawaii counties collect an average of $980 in property tax per capita....
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017 |
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Hawaii 6th Most Indebted State
By News Release @ 9:49 PM :: 7075 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Taxes
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...$27,100 = Each taxpayer's share of Hawaii's debt....
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Monday, September 18, 2017 |
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Caldwell: Now That Legislature Has Done the Hard Work of Raising Taxes, I Urge HART to Not Do Nothing
By News Release @ 10:17 PM :: 6455 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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"...Doing nothing is unacceptable...." -- Mayor Kirk Caldwell, Sept 18, 2017
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Thursday, September 14, 2017 |
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Hawaii GE Tax Highest Sales Tax in USA on Per Capita Basis
By Tax Foundation @ 4:36 PM :: 5211 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Hawaii and North Dakota collect the most in statewide sales tax per capita at $2,090 and $1,835 respectively....
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Sunday, September 10, 2017 |
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Rail: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6402 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...The special session rail bill, SB 4, provides that if the Foundation wins and the State is ordered to refund money to the City, then the State will scoop the same amount of money from the City’s share of transient accommodations tax....
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Saturday, September 9, 2017 |
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How Much Does Your State Collect in Corporate Income Taxes Per Capita?
By Tax Foundation @ 11:59 PM :: 5994 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Taxes
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...in FY 2015, the corporate income tax only comprised 5.3 percent of state tax collections....
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Friday, September 8, 2017 |
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Hawaii taxes block prosperity
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:40 PM :: 4062 Views :: Taxes
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Confucius said to the ruler: So long as when you get richer, the poor get richer....
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 |
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Andria Tupola: Special Session 2017 Wrap-Up
By News Release @ 12:40 PM :: 5012 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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......Our floor amendment to exclude neighbor islands from the 1% TAT increase received support from four other neighbor island Representatives....
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 |
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Ige Signs $2.4B Rail Tax Hike Bill
By News Release @ 2:01 AM :: 6453 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Taxes
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...Ige’s signing of the rail funding bill also allows the Honolulu City Council to approve Bill 45, which extends O‘ahu’s half-percent surcharge to the state general excise tax another three years....
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Sunday, September 3, 2017 |
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Rail: I Dunno About TAT
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6861 Views :: Rail, Taxes, Tourism
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...The TAT, when it was enacted in 1986, was primarily meant to fund the Hawaii Convention Center....
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Saturday, September 2, 2017 |
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$2.4B Tax Hike: How They Voted
By Andrew Walden @ 10:09 AM :: 7464 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...Senators highlighted in YELLOW are up for reelection in 2018. Only four of them voted for the tax hike....
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Thursday, August 31, 2017 |
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Rail: FTA is open to shortening the route
By Honolulu Traffic @ 6:57 PM :: 6354 Views :: Ethics, Rail, Taxes
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...FTA is complicit. That’s why it is likely to approve a Plan B that stops at Middle Street....
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Sunday, August 27, 2017 |
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Honolulu Republicans Protest Rail Bailout Bill
By Brett Kulbis @ 5:52 PM :: 6699 Views :: Rail, Republican Party, Taxes
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Senate Committee on Ways and Means to hold hearing Monday, August 28th beginning at 3pm...
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Sunday, August 27, 2017 |
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Honolulu: For 1000s Property Tax Rate Will Quadruple Sept 1
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 7201 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes
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...People who aren’t aware of what happened may find themselves with property tax bills many times what they are now....
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Saturday, August 26, 2017 |
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Full Text: Feds Letter Demanding Rail Plan by Sept 15
By Andrew Walden @ 10:01 PM :: 6246 Views :: Ethics, Rail, Taxes
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...The Recovery Plan does not include a financial plan with funding sufficient to cover HART's current estimated total Project cost....
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Friday, August 25, 2017 |
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Full Text: Caldwell Rips Legislators' Rail Tax Hike Plan
By News Release @ 5:30 AM :: 5524 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...we were told that this was not a negotiation but a take it or leave it situation....
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Thursday, August 24, 2017 |
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Postpone tax talk until after rail audit
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:44 PM :: 3731 Views :: Taxes
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...there is, in fact, another feasible option: no tax increases at all....
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Thursday, August 24, 2017 |
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Which Counties Benefit Most From the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction?
By Tax Foundation @ 5:16 PM :: 4563 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...how much U.S. taxpayers deduct in home mortgage interest by county....
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017 |
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UPDATE: No More Bailouts for Rail!
By Brett Kulbis @ 12:22 AM :: 5223 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...In a week, lawmakers will be opening a special legislative session to determine how they are going to raise our taxes....
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017 |
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Rep Tupola Backs Forensic Audit for HART
By News Release @ 1:44 PM :: 6886 Views :: Ethics, Rail, Taxes
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...City and HART officials were often unable to give specific answers to our questions and rarely took responsibility for their cost overruns and inflated budgets....
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Friday, August 11, 2017 |
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No need for special session this summer
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:49 PM :: 5892 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...the immediate cash flow problems have been solved for the most part by the Honolulu City Council, which authorized the sale of $350 million in bonds to help bail out the project....
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Friday, August 11, 2017 |
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Rail Fail: Why You Should Speak Out
By Shirlene Ostrov @ 2:04 PM :: 6549 Views :: Rail, Republican Party, Taxes
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...Honolulu Rail Project is on track to becoming the costliest and most mismanaged public transportation project in our nation's history....
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Tuesday, August 8, 2017 |
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Full Text: Lawmaker Leaks Plan to Make Sister Isles Pay for Rail -- Public Hearing Set
By News Release @ 5:22 PM :: 6870 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...The Hawaii Legislature is hosting a public informational briefing on state funding for the City & County of Honolulu’s rail project at 10 a.m. Aug. 14 in the State Capitol auditorium....
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Monday, August 7, 2017 |
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Why Hawaii Isn't Rich Like Texas
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:01 AM :: 6591 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Taxes
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Texas has no personal income tax....
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Sunday, August 6, 2017 |
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The Grand Skim of Things (Part 1)
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6478 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Rail, Taxes
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...A Hawaii law dating back to 1955, which now can be found at HRS section 36-27, says that 5% of any special fund’s income will be paid to the state general fund to pay “central service expenses....”
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Saturday, August 5, 2017 |
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Why a Tax on Soda is Unhealthy
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:14 PM :: 6347 Views :: Health Care, Taxes, Cost of Living
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...Hawaii has no soda tax. But that's not for lack of trying.....
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017 |
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Secret Rail Meetings at Legislature
By News Release @ 6:21 PM :: 6479 Views :: Ethics, Rail, Taxes
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... If the funding of rail was all that was on the table it would be simple....
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Sunday, July 30, 2017 |
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No Hanahana -- Kaukau Anyway
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5587 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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...if you don’t work, you don’t eat....
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017 |
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$1.6B Available to Pay for Rail -- Without Raising Taxes
By Andrew Walden @ 4:54 AM :: 8590 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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... we found $1.595B being siphoned off of Rail for non-rail purposes ....
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Sunday, July 23, 2017 |
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EITC: Devil in the Details
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4064 Views :: Taxes
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On July 10, 2017, Governor Ige proudly signed House Bill 209, a bill that establishes a Hawaii earned income tax credit....
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Thursday, July 20, 2017 |
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How High Are Individual Income Tax Collections in Your State?
By Tax Foundation @ 2:42 PM :: 4902 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... Before the latest increase, Hawaii ranked 11th ....
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Monday, July 17, 2017 |
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HART Boardmember: Our Credibility has Disappeared, Nobody Knows Who is Responsible
By News Release @ 11:24 PM :: 8274 Views :: Ethics, Rail, Taxes
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...Full Text: Letter to HART Boardmembers, Mayor and County Councilmembers from John Henry Felix....
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Monday, July 17, 2017 |
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Hawaii Death Tax: State Gets You in the End
By Tax Foundation @ 10:48 PM :: 5718 Views :: Taxes
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...State inheritance and estate taxes, together with the federal estate tax, reduce investment, discourage business expansion, and can sometimes drive wealthy taxpayers out of state....
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Friday, July 14, 2017 |
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Giving Rail Credit Where it Isn't Due
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:59 PM :: 5141 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...rail is like the cousin who is always hitting you up for money....
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Thursday, July 13, 2017 |
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Road Funding: Nobody Pays More Than Hawaii Drivers
By Tax Foundation @ 1:33 PM :: 4637 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...the share of state and local road spending that is covered by tolls, user fees, and taxes varies drastically. It ranges from only 12 percent in Alaska to 76.3 percent in Hawaii....
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Saturday, July 8, 2017 |
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GE Tax Equivalent to 13% Sales Tax
By Andrew Walden @ 1:51 PM :: 5965 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Hawaii GET taxes many products multiple times and ultimately taxes 99.21 percent of the state’s personal income compared to the national median sales tax which applies to 34.46 percent of personal income....
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Sunday, July 2, 2017 |
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Carving Up the Price of Car Rentals
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5200 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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One of the legislative bills that is now being considered by Gov. David Ige is a curious bill, HB 735, involving the car rental industry....
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