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Wednesday, September 17, 2014 |
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Slom: State Set to go Bust Unless Major Changes Made in 2015
By News Release @ 5:21 PM :: 5614 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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...if the State continues to spend at the current rate Hawaii will use up its general fund carryover balances as early as 2016....
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014 |
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Abercrombie, Ige Together -- $833M Tax Hike
By News Release @ 1:09 PM :: 3339 Views :: Taxes
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...Abercrombie And Senator David Ige Have Passed Over $833 Million Of Tax Increases Since 2011....
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Monday, September 15, 2014 |
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Hawaii 2nd Most Unfair Tax System in USA
By News Release @ 2:00 PM :: 5782 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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The middle class is most overtaxed in Arkansas, New York and Hawaii....
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Sunday, September 14, 2014 |
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Timing Isn't Everything, It's the Only Thing
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 3824 Views :: Taxes
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...poor timing can lead to tremendously bad results in Hawaii's tax system....
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Saturday, September 13, 2014 |
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Bag Bans are Bad Business
By NCPA @ 11:48 AM :: 6655 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Taxes, Cost of Living
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The government was forced to raise the tax after they noticed that bag use was increasing as consumers began absorbing the cost of the bags....
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Sunday, September 7, 2014 |
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State-Provided Targeted Benefits: Help or Harm?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 3611 Views :: Taxes
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...State governments, including ours, are increasingly using targeted benefits, such as tax credits and exemptions, to attract companies....
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014 |
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GE Tax: Will Cost Overruns Lead to New Rail Showdown?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:29 PM :: 5940 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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By their own admission, HART executives underestimated the effect of litigation on construction costs and schedules. Will they now underestimate their ability to push through an unpopular tax hike?
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014 |
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Hawaii deemed ‘sinkhole’ state by fiscal watchdog for pension debt
By Malia Zimmerman @ 12:27 PM :: 5273 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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A report by a fiscal watchdog deems Hawaii one of the worst “sinkhole” states for its growing debt burden to taxpayers....
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Monday, September 1, 2014 |
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Ige Pushed $791M GE Tax Hike in Face of Protests
By Andrew Walden @ 11:25 PM :: 6253 Views :: Politicians, Taxes
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Ige, Chun-Oakland, and Fukunaga were the three bitter-enders holding out for the full $791M in GE Tax hikes....
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Sunday, August 31, 2014 |
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At First, Takai Voted For the Pension Tax 'Every Time'
By Andrew Walden @ 11:21 PM :: 8295 Views :: Labor, Politicians, Taxes
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Even weeks after angry kupuna and union members began crowding committee hearings to protest, Takai voted 'aye' for the pension tax bill HB1092 HD1....
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Sunday, August 31, 2014 |
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Pension Tax: How Did Your Legislator Vote?
By Andrew Walden @ 5:40 PM :: 7726 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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...find your state representative and determine how he or she voted every time the pension tax was up...
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Sunday, August 31, 2014 |
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REIT – A New Kind of Tax Shelter?
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 4775 Views :: Taxes
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What qualifies as real estate for REIT purposes is an issue that recently has been in the news....
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Sunday, August 24, 2014 |
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Filing Close to Deadline? Get a Receipt!
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4118 Views :: Taxes
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Mr. and Mrs. Stocker waited until the day their taxes were due....
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Thursday, August 21, 2014 |
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Hawaii Gets Mixed Reviews on Policies to Prevent and Fight Cancer
By News Release @ 2:43 PM :: 5552 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Taxes
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Hawaii is making progress when it comes to passing policies to prevent and reduce suffering and death from cancer, according to a new report by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network....
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 |
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Hawaii Still a Debt "Sinkhole State"
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:35 PM :: 5278 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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Hawaii remains among the worst 5 states for taxpayer burden of debt and continues to use overly optimistic accounting....
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Sunday, August 17, 2014 |
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Flying High
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 5164 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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Airline passengers are considered an easy group to tax....
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 |
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Kauai: Hundreds Demand Explanation for Massive Property Tax Hikes
By News Release @ 3:02 AM :: 5491 Views :: Kauai County, Taxes
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“We’ve taken literally hundreds of inquiries over the past three weeks and have explained to each taxpayer in great detail why their taxes may have increased....”
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 |
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Do We Really Want to Starve the Golden Goose?
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 4571 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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...Department of Taxation employees were able to answer the phone only 59% of the time in 2013....
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 |
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2014 April GET Collections Still Down Compared to 2013
By Sen. Sam Slom @ 4:17 PM :: 6532 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...2014 April General Excise Tax (GET) collections are still down compared to the same month last year, although slightly improved on March 2014....
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Sunday, August 3, 2014 |
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Everywhere...and Perversely Fair
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 3709 Views :: Taxes
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...Our Hawaii Supreme Court said that it reaches "virtually every economic activity imaginable"....
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Friday, August 1, 2014 |
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$72M Vanishes: New Council on Revenues Forecast Minus 1.8%
By News Release @ 3:54 PM :: 7693 Views :: Economy, Taxes
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...The new fiscal year 2014 forecast is minus 1.8 percent, down from a negative 0.4 percent in May, a difference of about $72 million....
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 |
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Inversion: Is it Fair to Vote with Your Feet?
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 3881 Views :: Taxes
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...“inversion” occurs when a U.S. company merges with a foreign company and moves its headquarters to the foreign country....
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Friday, July 25, 2014 |
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Retiree Healthcare: Hawaii's $3.5B Magic Trick
By Selected News Articles @ 4:36 PM :: 7587 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Taxes
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...Can anything be in worse condition than unfunded government pensions? Unfortunately, yes – and it’s called OPEB....
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014 |
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House Bill Could Free Hawaii Consumers from $20M Internet Tax
By Selected News Articles @ 4:55 PM :: 4590 Views :: Taxes
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The Senate version, called the Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act, is awaiting consideration from the Senate Finance Committee....
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Monday, July 14, 2014 |
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Hawaii's State Debt Now Represents 92% of the Average Taxpayer's Income
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:09 PM :: 4589 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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Hawaii's mounting state debt now represents $41,300 per taxpayer, the second highest in the country....
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Sunday, July 13, 2014 |
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Would You Be Shocked?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6066 Views :: Energy, Taxes, Cost of Living
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...Hawaii's power prices are among the highest in the nation as well. Not surprisingly, one of the big reasons for this is taxation....
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Friday, July 11, 2014 |
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1935: Hawaii Imposes GE Tax
By Selected News Articles @ 6:28 PM :: 5446 Views :: Hawaii History, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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By the end of the 1930s, 22 states had implemented a sales tax....
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 |
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Hawaii’s Downward Spiral Of State Tax Collections Is Alarming
By Sen. Sam Slom @ 10:23 PM :: 4969 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...General Excise Tax collections for the first quarter of 2014 are down 4.6% in comparison to last year....
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Sunday, June 29, 2014 |
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We’ve Been Bracket Creeped!
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4162 Views :: Taxes
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...in 1978 when Hawaii adopted its present system of conforming to the federal Internal Revenue Code, inflation adjustments were left off the table....
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Sunday, June 22, 2014 |
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How Hawaii Can Grow the Pie
By Tom Yamachika @ 3:10 PM :: 4138 Views :: Taxes
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What it would take to help the state create a governing and regulatory climate that would bring in more revenue without raising taxes....
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014 |
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Missing IRS emails outrage targeted Hawaii tea party leaders
By Malia Zimmerman @ 3:00 PM :: 6742 Views :: First Amendment, Taxes, TEA Party
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Hawaii TEA party leaders are outraged over the news the IRS has lost emails of its former director, Lois Lerner, during a critical time when the agency admitted to targeting conservative groups....
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014 |
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IRS Commissioner Subpoenaed to Testify on Lois Lerner’s ‘Lost’ Emails
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:20 PM :: 5412 Views :: Taxes, TEA Party
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He had been told “they’re there” by no less than IRS Commissioner John Koskinen himself....
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Sunday, June 15, 2014 |
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It's All About Delivering Value
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 3633 Views :: Taxes
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When you think about paying taxes, most people seem to think that it's about the same as throwing money down a rathole....
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014 |
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1901: Territory of Hawaii Adopts First Income Tax in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 10:00 PM :: 7948 Views :: Hawaii History, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Now every state has an income tax except for Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming. Alaska is notable in that it is the only state to repeal an existing income tax....
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Sunday, June 8, 2014 |
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What Happens in Vegas...Moves to Vegas
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4089 Views :: Taxes
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...between 1995 and 2000 roughly 12,000 people moved from Hawaii to Nevada, and about 1,850 moved from Nevada to Hawaii....
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Thursday, June 5, 2014 |
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Hawaii Ranks #4 in Gasoline Taxes
By Selected News Articles @ 4:01 PM :: 7122 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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California is in 1st place with the highest rate of 52.89 cents per gallon, and is followed closely by New York (49.86 cents/gallon), Connecticut (49.3 cents/gallon), and Hawaii (48.05 cents/gallon)....
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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 :: 5186 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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Sunday, June 1, 2014 |
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The Hawaiian Tribe--Taxes
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4236 Views :: Taxes
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We certainly hope that no one is thinking that the citizens of the reconstituted Kingdom living on state lands, and taking advantages of the benefits and services offered by the state and federal governments, will then claim they don’t have to pay for them....
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Friday, May 23, 2014 |
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IRS Holds Off -- for Now -- on Rules to Restrict Political Groups
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:25 AM :: 6815 Views :: First Amendment, Taxes, TEA Party
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Yesterday, the IRS announced it would hold off until next year on new rules that would have restricted the activities of nonprofit groups....
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Saturday, May 17, 2014 |
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Chamber of Commerce 23 Harmful Bills Stopped in Legislature
By Selected News Articles @ 5:15 AM :: 6005 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business, Taxes
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Of the 54 bills harmful to business that were introduced this session that we tracked, 23 bills were stopped....
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Thursday, May 15, 2014 |
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New IRS Revelations – and What the Obama Administration Is Doing Behind the Scenes
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:03 PM :: 6430 Views :: National News, Taxes, TEA Party
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...the Obama administration lied when it tried to pin the scandal on IRS employees in an Ohio branch office....
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Sunday, May 11, 2014 |
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Fitch Downgrade: Kauai County Spending Out of Control
By News Release @ 3:58 PM :: 5333 Views :: Kauai County, Taxes
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Expenditure growth has repeatedly outpaced revenue gains, resulting in recurring operating deficits and drawdowns in fund balance....
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Sunday, May 11, 2014 |
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To Err Is Human – And Then We Can Really Mess Things Up
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 3631 Views :: Taxes
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One feature of our legislative session is that a lot of work needs to get done in a short amount of time. When that happens, there are “oops” moments....
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Saturday, May 10, 2014 |
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Hawaii's Top Marginal Tax Rate: 367100%
By Selected News Articles @ 6:18 PM :: 4059 Views :: Taxes
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The paper provides taxpayers with concise information regarding the importance of these Hawaii tax cliffs and suggests policy changes....
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Monday, May 5, 2014 |
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Maui Council Approves Budget with Tax and Fee Cuts
By News Release @ 2:36 PM :: 5234 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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...real property tax rates were reduced by 3.1 percent across the board from fiscal year 2014 rates....
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Sunday, May 4, 2014 |
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So You Want A Stable Funding Source?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 3705 Views :: Taxes
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This week we look at the term “stable funding source.” In business, there is no such thing....
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Sunday, May 4, 2014 |
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HART 3 Month Take--Another $61.7M from Taxpayers
By News Release @ 1:42 AM :: 5019 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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The half-percent GET surcharge for Oahu, which by law can only be used for Honolulu's rail system, began in January 2007 and is set to expire at the end of 2022....
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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 :: 5361 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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...You’ll never see it as a line item in the budget....
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Sunday, April 27, 2014 |
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Do You Know the Meaning of ‘Temporary’?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4032 Views :: Taxes
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Yes, to you and me it’s a common word. But in the world of Hawaii tax it seems to have an entirely different meaning....
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