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Wednesday, May 8, 2013 |
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Pacquiao Takes Fight in Macau, U.S. Federal Income Tax Rate Proves Too High
By Americans for Tax Reform @ 1:40 PM :: 5343 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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“Manny can go back to Las Vegas and make $25 million, but how much of it will he end up with – $15 million?"
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Sunday, May 5, 2013 |
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Making Reimbursements Could Incur Tax Liability
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 6:03 AM :: 5121 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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In recent years, various proposals to exempt the reimbursement of amounts paid out by mangers or operators of a number of business activities have been enacted....
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Saturday, May 4, 2013 |
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Budget: Kenoi Proposes $21M Property Tax Hike
By News Release @ 10:40 AM :: 5117 Views :: Hawaii County , Taxes
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...this budget incorporates a property tax 'adjustment' that would allow the county to collect an estimated $219 million in the year ahead....
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Friday, May 3, 2013 |
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No Hawaii Beverage Tax Cheers Third Win in a Row
By News Release @ 5:18 PM :: 4530 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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Unfortunately, we know from past experience that even though the public doesn't want a beverage tax, some lawmakers will keep pushing for one....
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Thursday, May 2, 2013 |
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Starting in October: 15% Penalty on Overpaid Unemployment Comp
By Selected News Articles @ 7:18 AM :: 6311 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Taxes
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Hawaii has amended its Employment Security Law as follows....
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013 |
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SB1196 Small Vendors Targeted by DoTax
By Video @ 9:47 AM :: 4755 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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... Assists with enforcement of cash economy laws by the department of taxation ....
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Sunday, April 28, 2013 |
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Lack of Understanding of General Excise Tax Creates Confusion
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 6:00 AM :: 4842 Views :: Taxes
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...because of its broad base...it is applied to nearly every transaction that takes place in Hawaii....
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Friday, April 26, 2013 |
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Bag Tax Goes National
By News Release @ 9:28 PM :: 4997 Views :: Environment, Taxes
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... H.R. 1686, the Trash Reduction Act of 2013 -- Annualized Cost: $4.08 billion ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013 |
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HIRA: Democrats Want to Tax Your Online Purchases
By News Release @ 11:40 PM :: 4040 Views :: Taxes
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proposed federal law will permit states to increase the price tag for virtually all of your online purchases....
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Monday, April 22, 2013 |
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Internet Sales Tax Is a State Money Grab
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:24 PM :: 2902 Views :: Taxes
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Why are states so eager to collect taxes on Internet sales? In short, because they could grab money from other states....
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Sunday, April 21, 2013 |
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Let Them Ask for Their Funding
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:01 AM :: 4164 Views :: Taxes
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...take a moment to look back on the last 50 or so working days to see how they handled taxpayer funds....
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Friday, April 19, 2013 |
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Internet Sales Tax: Taxation Without Representation
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:04 PM :: 3527 Views :: Taxes
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Retailers would be forced to act as tax collectors for states in which they have no voice....
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Monday, April 15, 2013 |
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Where Did Your Tax Dollar Go?
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:00 PM :: 3344 Views :: Taxes
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Americans are waking up today to the worst "case of the Mondays" they'll have all year: It's Tax Day....
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Sunday, April 14, 2013 |
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DoTax Cooking Books to Influence Legislature? HART Calls for Audit
By Andrew Walden @ 6:02 PM :: 5366 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...the illusion of greater revenues would be helpful in Abercrombie’s effort to create a state-funded ‘Early Education’ voucher system....
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Sunday, April 14, 2013 |
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Let Conformity Simplify Tax Filings
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:02 AM :: 4030 Views :: Taxes
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...the madness of completing state tax returns is just around the corner....
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Thursday, April 11, 2013 |
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Hawaii Tax Freedom Day April 14
By Selected News Articles @ 1:44 PM :: 4938 Views :: Taxes
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Tax Freedom Day is the day when the state as a whole has earned enough money to pay its total tax bill for the year....
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Sunday, April 7, 2013 |
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Lessen Dependence on Government: Key to Strong Democracy
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:02 AM :: 6208 Views :: Economy, Taxes
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One of the opportunities that sequestration presents is the realization of just how dependent the American public is ....
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Friday, April 5, 2013 |
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Tax Myths Debunked
By News Release @ 1:31 PM :: 5414 Views :: Taxes
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...Iowa Policy Project and Good Jobs First used cherry-picked data and inaccurate statements to argue that Hawaii should raise taxes....
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Thursday, March 28, 2013 |
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House GOP: "Senate bills would increase taxes and fees"
By News Release @ 11:17 PM :: 7158 Views :: Republican Party, Taxes
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After many House bills to raise taxes and fees failed in the House, more Senate bills that would do so are still alive....
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Monday, March 25, 2013 |
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Taxes, Marriage, PLDC Top Agenda for Hawaii Republican Assembly
By News Release @ 1:17 PM :: 7779 Views :: Family, Republican Party, Taxes
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As an affiliated chapter of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, HIRA strives to be the conservative standard-bearer of the Republican Party in Hawaii ....
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Sunday, March 24, 2013 |
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Knee-Jerk Reaction Leads to Just More Money
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 6:01 AM :: 5559 Views :: Taxes
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...how much is too much when it comes to spending on government programs....
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Saturday, March 23, 2013 |
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Hirono, Schatz Cast Decisive Votes as Senate Passes Trillion Dollar Tax Hike
By Selected News Articles @ 12:50 PM :: 8033 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation, Taxes
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...a $3.7 trillion blueprint for 2014 that would fast-track passage of tax increases, trim spending gingerly and leave the government still deeply in the debt a decade from now....
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 |
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Online Travel Companies Ordered to Pay $70M, Appeal Planned
By News Release @ 12:38 AM :: 8600 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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Tax Appeal Court Judge Gary W.B. Chang yesterday granted the State of Hawaii’s motion for summary judgment....
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 |
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Tell Congress: No Internet Sales Tax
By News Release @ 2:23 PM :: 5482 Views :: Taxes
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The internet sales tax mandate would force businesses to become sales tax collectors for all states....
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Monday, March 18, 2013 |
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Abercrombie: Hotel Industry TAT Concerns are "Propaganda"
By News Release @ 8:31 PM :: 7165 Views :: Economy, Taxes, Tourism
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...the governor interrupted by saying he has been hearing “the same propaganda.”
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Sunday, March 17, 2013 |
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Key to Hawaii’s Future is Business Climate
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 6:11 AM :: 9541 Views :: Economy, Small Business, Tax Credits, Taxes
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we, mere mortals, cannot predict what the prize industry of the future will be....
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Saturday, March 16, 2013 |
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List of Tax Measures Moving in Legislature Totals Seven Pages
By Andrew Walden @ 12:06 AM :: 7053 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits, Taxes
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Some raise, some redistribute. Others give credit where credit may not be due....
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Republican Caucus Commends Fiscally Conservative Hawaii House Budget
By News Release @ 7:43 PM :: 6569 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Republican Party, Taxes
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"This is a clear sign that the House is moving in the right direction," said Minority Leader Aaron Ling Johanson, Vice Chair of the House Committee on Finance.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Schatz Proposes $180 Billion Carbon Tax
By News Release @ 3:16 PM :: 6416 Views :: Environment, Taxes
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What is the appropriate price per ton for 'polluters' to pay? The draft contains alternative prices of $15, $25, and $35 per ton....
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Sunday, March 10, 2013 |
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Knock Off the Theatrics and Get Down To Business
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:11 AM :: 5338 Views :: Taxes
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For the last two months, taxpayers heard time and time again that the “sky is falling, the sky is falling”....
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013 |
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Senate Ways and Means Rejects Beverage Tax
By News Release @ 7:58 PM :: 7039 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, Cost of Living
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...we are one step closer to ensuring that the beverage tax is defeated for the third year in a row....
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Friday, March 1, 2013 |
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Obama's Sequester Smokescreen
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:05 AM :: 9844 Views :: National News, Economy, Taxes, Obama
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For the past few days the White House, with a big assist from sympathetic media, has done all within its considerable powers to make it seem like sequestration means the end of the world....
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
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Politico: Is President Obama Telling the Truth about Sequestration?
By NCPA @ 1:57 PM :: 8629 Views :: National News, Taxes, Obama
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... agencies cannot give a clear answer on how they arrived at their numbers. Congressional appropriations committee aides say they cannot fact check the administration's estimates ....
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Thursday, February 21, 2013 |
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Could Soda Tax Shutter Hawaii's Only Can Maker?
By News Release @ 4:11 PM :: 8017 Views :: Economy, Health Care, Taxes
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The Ball Corporation is the only manufacturer of metal cans in the islands. The company employs 45 people and the beverage tax places their jobs directly at risk.
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Sunday, February 17, 2013 |
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Jerking the Hotel Industry Around, You Can’t Trust Lawmakers
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 4:55 AM :: 6835 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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Recognizing the need to help the state balance it books, the hotel industry agreed to a temporary increase in the TAT rate which was increased two percentage points from 7.25% to 9.25%. The temporary increase is supposed to expire on June 30, 2015....
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Friday, February 15, 2013 |
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Consumer Freedom: Taxes Shouldn't be a Tool for Social Engineering
By News Release @ 4:10 PM :: 5451 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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“Taxes shouldn’t be a tool for social engineering or an instrument to penalize Hawaiians for doing nothing wrong....”
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Thursday, February 14, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Uses $275K in State Money to Push Soda Tax Hike
By Video @ 10:35 PM :: 6178 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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During a special premiere at the State Capitol, Gov. Neil Abercrombie and the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) today launched a new teen-focused multi-media campaign to combat obesity....
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Thursday, February 14, 2013 |
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Sin Taxes: A Questionable Source of Revenue
By NCPA @ 2:36 PM :: 4466 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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...lobbyists are relied upon heavily to vie for the interests of the higher-income consumers and producers, leaving the burden of the new tax to lower income consumers who cannot afford representation....
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Thursday, February 14, 2013 |
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Beverage Tax Heads to Senate Ways and Means Committee
By News Release @ 2:23 PM :: 4258 Views :: Taxes
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The reality is that calories in the American diet from added sugars in soda have dropped nearly 40 percent since 2000....
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Sunday, February 10, 2013 |
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Just Which Programs To Cut?
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:12 AM :: 6420 Views :: Taxes
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...everything is on the table from an increase in the general excise tax rate to fund education to new fees on cell phone use to the administration’s proposals to tax sugary drinks and single-use bags....
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Friday, February 8, 2013 |
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Suckers: HTA Maneuvered into Supporting Tax Hike On its Own Industry
By News Release @ 11:09 PM :: 7196 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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Just bluff an increase in TAT and they all line up in favor of extending the ‘temporary’ 9.25% rate....
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Thursday, February 7, 2013 |
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UHERO: Bag Tax and Conveyance Tax Have Downside
By News Release @ 8:55 PM :: 7037 Views :: Environment, Economy, Taxes
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...such taxes can shrink the economy unnecessarily by discouraging investment and artificially raising the price of basic needs....
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Sunday, February 3, 2013 |
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DoTax Employees Secretly Arrested, Fired
By Andrew Walden @ 12:40 PM :: 11363 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement, Tax Credits, Taxes
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A number of tax department employees who were investigated in connection with the security breaches have been “arrested and relieved of their duties,” said state Rep. John Mizuno....
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Sunday, February 3, 2013 |
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Jacking Up the Heat in Tax and Fee Hell
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:05 AM :: 5185 Views :: Taxes
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People inquiring about what the legislature is doing are surprised when told that lawmakers are hard at work trying to find ways to take even more of their money. Of course, it starts at the top....
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Thursday, January 31, 2013 |
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Tax Cut or Minimum Wage Hike? Hawaii 4th-Highest Taxes for Low Income Residents
By Andrew Walden @ 4:14 AM :: 7803 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Taxes
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Instead of cutting taxes on the poor, Abercrombie proposes to extract more taxes from them by hiking the minimum wage.
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Sunday, January 27, 2013 |
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Impact of High Taxes Cripples Economic Growth
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:00 AM :: 5161 Views :: Taxes
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...elected officials desperate to make-up the budget shortfall selectively raised taxes, resorting to increases that weren’t visible to the general public in order to avoid mass resentment ....
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Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
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Eco-Friendly? Reusable Shopping Bags Poisoning Our Oceans
By Mary Smart @ 2:20 AM :: 7232 Views :: Environment, Taxes
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Abercrombie was right about one thing in his 2013 State of the State speech, there are too many answers in the form of solutions being proposed before sufficient questions are asked and researched....
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
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HI-5 Fraud Shows DoH Cannot be Trusted With Soda Tax
By News Release @ 9:23 PM :: 5751 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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As public audits recently revealed, it's difficult to trust the Department of Health to spend our tax dollars wisely....
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Monday, January 21, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Soda Tax: $1.28 per Gallon
By Selected News Articles @ 8:26 PM :: 7378 Views :: Health Care, Taxes, Cost of Living
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In 2011, he had attempted to pass a soda tax under the Orwellian title “Sugary Beverage Healthy Hawaii Fee,” but the state legislature saw through the obfuscating rhetoric and defeated it.
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Sunday, January 20, 2013 |
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Abercrombie to Push Penny an Ounce Soda Tax
By Selected News Articles @ 3:52 PM :: 6326 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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A 12 ounce soda would cost 12 cents more....
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