Tax Credits

...Over the past 15 years, the people of Hawaii have paid 260% more for electricity than the US average, while gasoline prices consistently hover close to $1-per-gallon higher.  (But we can go even higher)....

...After all the billions we gave them, HTDC's pet 'High Tech' tax credit recipents claim a paltry $61.27M in revenues for 2017....

...Ige needs to take action by March 21, 2018 to take advantage of "qualified opportunity zones"....

...Notice that they never mention the Cost?....

...We reviewed 85 house and senate bills proposing 64 special and revolving funds during the 2018 legislative session of which none met criteria....

... HTDC awarded 15 Hawaii-based companies $1,417,050 ....

...Allows Qualifying Families To Pay For Tuition At Private And Parochial Schools....

...In the 2017 legislative session, our legislature passed an earned income tax credit (EITC)....

...Proterra hopes to hype these buses into a billion dollar IPO to pay off Proterra investor Al Gore....

...Bill to address Adams v. CDM court ruling (HB2201/SB2993)....

...“Let's Give Money Back”....

...the PUC has basically said that it expects the program to crash and burn....

...Review of Special Funds, Revolving Funds, Trust Funds, and Trust Accounts of the Department of Taxation....

...repeals the state and local tax deduction for income and sales taxes and caps the SALT deduction for property taxes at $10,000. The home mortgage interest is grandfathered in and preserved for new homes up to $500,000....

...Recently, the Honolulu City Council approved on first reading Bill 80 (2017), which would award a real property tax exemption to “ocean-friendly restaurants.”...

...state lawmakers mostly would just be raising taxes on the rich and giving it to themselves....

...but they didn't limit the oppressiveness of the income tax hike that went with it....

There are two factors contributing to this regional variation. The first is that higher-income taxpayers tend to take larger deductions....The second factor for county-by-county variation is that state and local tax regimes differ substantially....

Terms being bandied about include exemptions, deductions, and tax credits, and among tax credits there are the “CreditAbles” – refundable, nonrefundable, and assignable credits.....

Honolulu ranks first for installed solar capacity per capita in the United States....

After burning $2B, the state received a pathetic $27.1 million in taxes from 150 companies tied to the High Technology Development Corporation....

... $1.6M state tax dollars and $8.2M federal tax dollars given away, not loaned ....

...Growing Trees will Provide Opportunity for Purchase of Credits....

The Act 221 High-Tech Tax Credit Scam, abolished in 2010, still cost Hawaii $38.4M four years later....

...THE FILM TAX CREDIT is set to sunset at the end of 2018....

Health insurance premiums on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces (also called exchanges) are expected to increase faster in 2017 than in previous years....

...the tax credit program boosted California’s economy only minimally, if at all....

After Hawaii’s lucrative net metering program ended last October, the solar industry in the state lost about 450 jobs. Total employment now is just above 600....

... We will give you $3K to write a grant for $70K you can use to scoop the $500K....

Do you have acting skills? Can you pretend to be a Tech Entrepreneur?  UH has some money to give you....

$3,273,533 in funding from two grant programs to 13 Hawaii companies to help support development of new products....

"...The content of the CD1 stunned us; it was passed without a single public hearing.  There clearly was no justification....”

"...the specs of the stages aren’t enough to shoot a porn...."

And the 'fortunate sons' of John F Kerry and Joe Biden are involved, too....

Taxpayers in Hawaii spend about $1.8 billion on education every year....

"specialty crafted gourmet cookies made on Maui"

... How many high-tech tax credit scams must we suffer before legislators and the governor shut off the flow of taxpayer dollars? ....

Renewable fuel proponents took another shot this year at enacting a renewable fuels credit....

...most of those “savings” are coming from taxpayers pockets....

Few policies have enjoyed as much bipartisan support as the EITC....

...Hawaii fails to provide any information at all on recipients of key subsidy programs....

The poll results also show that Hawaiʻi residents are highly concerned about the state’s high cost of housing....

"...innovation-oriented projects that improve the living standards of Hawaii residents...." LOL!

Hawaii's Green Energy Market Securitization program (GEMS) financed with $145 million in bonds....

...our government has forced our utilities to jack up our electric bills to pay for this financing program that, to date, has not been able to underwrite a single kilowatt....

Rep. Pitts is building momentum within Congress to reform this archaic depression-era corporate welfare package....

The map shows the average amount of EITC taken per tax return in every county in America....