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Sunday, April 28, 2024 |
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The Home Stretch at the Legislature
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 88 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... At the end of this month, the Legislature wraps up and we see what gets sent to Gov. Green’s desk for signature or veto ....
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Saturday, April 27, 2024 |
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Legislature on Brink of Advancing Brighter Future
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:24 PM :: 105 Views :: Development, Health Care, Taxes
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... at least five bills strongly supported by my colleagues and I at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii were passed out of conference committees and now will go for final votes at the House and Senate floor sessions ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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Maui Property Tax Resolution Full of Blank Numbers
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:26 PM :: 201 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... Resolution 24-78 would set property tax rates for the coming year ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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Maui budget full of tax hikes
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:18 PM :: 223 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... County officials are seeking significant property tax increases while doing virtually nothing to cut spending or spend wisely ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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Let’s end embarrassing tax on medical services
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:26 PM :: 319 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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... the GET makes practicing in Hawaii so financially challenging, causing many Hawaii doctors to retire or move away ....
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Sunday, April 21, 2024 |
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And Now the Big Guns Come Out
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1248 Views :: Ethics, Small Business, Taxes
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... I became convinced that the proceedings, or at least this part of them, were prearranged ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Property tax hikes wrong medicine for Maui woes
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:24 PM :: 639 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... Tax hikes would burden average Maui homeowners the most ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Insurance ‘stabilization’ bill would spread pain to everyone
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:57 PM :: 701 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, Cost of Living
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“...if you look through the bill, it’s a bunch of blank spaces. It says conveyance taxes will increase by blank percent. Or short-term rental taxes are gonna have a blank percent tax on them....”
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Sunday, April 14, 2024 |
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Aloha ThinkTech
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 790 Views :: First Amendment, Taxes
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... ThinkTech has fallen victim to a phenomenon that has plagued many nonprofits including the Tax Foundation of Hawaii: a drop in donor funding ....
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Saturday, April 13, 2024 |
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A tax proposal I actually like
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:33 PM :: 1045 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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... the state’s estate or “death” tax can force their heirs of local businesses to sell off the assets of their companies ....
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Thursday, April 11, 2024 |
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‘Surprise’ state tax last straw for veteran Hawaii bar owner?
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:42 PM :: 977 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, COVID-19
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... Comerford said his 45 years of living in Hawaii and 25 years of being a business owner are likely to end due to a recent state decision to collect taxes on federal Restaurant Revitalization Funds received during the COVID-19 lockdowns ....
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 |
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Rich States, Poor States: Hawaii Ranks 41st--Will Legislature Send Tax Cuts to Governor?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:02 PM :: 1578 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Taxes
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... Gov. Josh Green addressed the tax and migration issues in his policy brief issued last month. One of his solutions is indexing the state's income tax for inflation, he said ....
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Monday, April 8, 2024 |
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Will Hawaii ever have a ‘Taxpayer Bill of Rights’?
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:01 AM :: 893 Views :: Taxes
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... TABOR, a constitutional amendment approved by Colorado voters in 1992, limits the growth of government by limiting tax increases ....
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Sunday, April 7, 2024 |
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The Passthrough Entity Problem
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1041 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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... This is an issue here in Hawaii because our individual income tax rates can go up to 11%, second highest in the nation ....
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Thursday, April 4, 2024 |
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DLNR Now Charging $1 to Use Ocean
By News Release @ 4:38 AM :: 1262 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Taxes, Tourism
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... more than 500 companies with commercial use permits from the DLNR Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation (DOBOR), began collecting one dollar from each passenger or customer ....
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024 |
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Hawaii 2nd Highest State Tax Burden
By Selected News Articles @ 5:15 PM :: 1528 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... Overall Tax Burden 11.80% ....
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Sunday, March 31, 2024 |
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GET on Health Care, Revisited
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1225 Views :: Health Care, Small Business, Taxes
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... HB 1675: GET exemption for medical services paid for by Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE ....
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Thursday, March 28, 2024 |
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A hard look at the root causes of the exodus
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:33 AM :: 1557 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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...When government is finally saying it is the problem, it’s on the right track to finding a solution....
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024 |
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Exodus to Mainland: State Loses $185M Tax Revenue
By News Release @ 6:39 PM :: 1429 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... outmigration since 2020 has resulted in the loss of $185 million in general excise taxes and state income taxes, or approximately $61.8 million per year ....
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Sunday, March 24, 2024 |
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Fear of the Unknown
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1247 Views :: Ethics, Tax Credits, Taxes
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... some bills replace a current tax rate with a blank. Or several blanks. Those are scary because you don’t know what our lawmakers are thinking of putting in there ....
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Saturday, March 23, 2024 |
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Fraud: Another Sovereignty Scammer Pleads Guilty
By News Release @ 3:10 PM :: 2090 Views :: Higher Education, OHA, Taxes
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... the sixth person charged in connection with the investigation into a group tied to Dexter Kiama and David Keanu Sai ....
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 |
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Hawaii 2nd-Worst Taxpayer ROI
By Selected News Articles @ 6:46 PM :: 1643 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... states with the Best & Worst Taxpayer Return on Investment in 2024 ....
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Sunday, March 17, 2024 |
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The Hawaii Estate Tax
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1914 Views :: Taxes
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... there are bills advancing that would, if enacted, fundamentally change how Hawaii’s estate tax works ....
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Thursday, March 14, 2024 |
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House Passes State Budget
By News Release @ 4:30 AM :: 1317 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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"... will come at an extraordinary cost ...."
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Friday, March 8, 2024 |
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TAT Audit: Maui County fails to Collect Millions from Vacation Rentals
By News Release @ 1:50 AM :: 1465 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... the County recognized over $56.9 million of MCTAT revenue on its financial statements. However, as of June 30, 2022, only $40 million (1) was actually deposited ....
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Thursday, March 7, 2024 |
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HB1675: No GE Tax on Medical Services
By Video @ 3:40 AM :: 1454 Views :: Health Care, Small Business, Taxes
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... supporting HB 1675 as the first step in getting rid of GET for medical services ....
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Sunday, March 3, 2024 |
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Amended Return Equals Guilty Plea
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1550 Views :: Ethics, Taxes
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... Here’s how the strategy works ....
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Thursday, February 29, 2024 |
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Hawaii Worst State to Be Middle Income from a Tax Perspective
By Selected News Articles @ 1:15 PM :: 1534 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... for middle income earners, taxes take 13.62% of income--highest in the USA ....
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024 |
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Bills increasing costs for tourists moving through Hawaii Legislature
By Selected News Articles @ 2:19 PM :: 1318 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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... two proposals that would increase the transient accommodation tax, known as TAT ....
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Sunday, February 25, 2024 |
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The Department’s Quest to Nullify Evidence
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1361 Views :: Taxes
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... trampling on taxpayers’ rights ....
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Sunday, February 25, 2024 |
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DoTax: State Tax Credits You Can Claim
By News Release @ 2:22 AM :: 1363 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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... Hawaiʻi Department of Taxation Encourages Hawaiʻi Families to Claim Available Tax Credits ....
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Friday, February 23, 2024 |
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Hawaii committee to discuss $25 tourism tax Friday
By Selected News Articles @ 6:07 AM :: 1369 Views :: Environment, Taxes, Tourism
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... House Bill 2406 would impose a $25 "transient accommodation tax," also known as a TAT, on top of the 10.25% TAT that is already in place ....
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Sunday, February 18, 2024 |
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Sunday, February 18, 2024 |
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The ConAm Returns Again
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1342 Views :: Education K-12, Taxes
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... The Counties all oppose this bill ....
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Sunday, February 11, 2024 |
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Hoarding School Impact Fees
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1507 Views :: Education K-12, Development, Taxes
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... since 2007, not one thin dime has been spent out of the school impact fees collected ....
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024 |
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A social tax policy I could agree with
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:13 PM :: 1258 Views :: Taxes
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... It used to be that you could trust the Legislature to not raise taxes during an election year ....
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Sunday, February 4, 2024 |
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Danger: 200 tax bills being considered by Legislature
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:59 PM :: 1557 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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"... they’re not providing a very efficient source of revenue ...."
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Sunday, February 4, 2024 |
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What Were They Thinking?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1346 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... the process to separate the wheat from the proverbial chaff has begun ....
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Thursday, February 1, 2024 |
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Three Ways to Lower Hawaii's Cost of Living
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:18 PM :: 1359 Views :: Development, Jones Act, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... reduce housing regulations, support reform of the federal Jones Act and cut taxes ....
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Sunday, January 28, 2024 |
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DoTAX Grabs for Restaurants' COVID Relief Money
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:23 PM :: 1261 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, COVID-19
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... restaurants hit with surprise tax bill applicable to the financial aid received under federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund ....
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Sunday, January 28, 2024 |
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Reasons to be optimistic about the 2024 Legislature
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:00 AM :: 1143 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... Will this be the year that we finally start to see positive big changes — or are we going to see more taxes, more spending, more regulations? ....
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024 |
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024 |
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Recovery? Maui County Greets New Year with GE Tax Increase
By News Release @ 1:33 PM :: 1228 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... Maui County surcharge and GET is 4.5% as of Jan. 1, 2024 ....
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Sunday, January 21, 2024 |
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Will Tax Relief be on Agenda for 2024?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1110 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... In the 2023 legislative session, that legislation was amended beyond recognition in both the House and Senate ....
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Saturday, January 20, 2024 |
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Hold on to your wallets! The Legislature is back in session
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:56 AM :: 1188 Views :: Development, Land Use, Taxes
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... “artificial limiters” imposed on the housing stock via the state’s 5% cap on land zoned for residential ....
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Thursday, January 18, 2024 |
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Legislature Considering Constitutional Amendment to Enact a State Property Tax
By Selected News Articles @ 3:01 PM :: 1476 Views :: Education K-12, Taxes
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... a bill calling for a constitutional amendment to enact a tax on residential investment property valued at over $3 million ....
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Sunday, January 14, 2024 |
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More Tax Hikes Coming
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1732 Views :: Taxes
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... It isn’t very far into the new year, but already the tax hike proposals have begun ....
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