Entries for 'Tom Yamachika'

... how Hawaii compares on the ten most common household bills ....

... Whether it be a bake sale, benefit dinner, or a silent auction, any income from an activity the primary purpose for which is raising money is GET taxable ....

... It would have increased the state sales tax and would have eliminated many tax credits and deductions.  The legislature, predictably, tossed out these offsets ....

... Fat chance of the Feds giving us that much now ....

... there are a lot of different taxes that go into the price at the pump ....

... Here’s a list of some of the eyebrow-raising bills that have gone to the fifth floor ....

... Now the important deadlines are June 27, 2022, when the Governor needs to give notice of intent to veto a bill, and July 12, 2022, which is the deadline for the Governor to sign or veto any bills ....

“The general rule is that amounts received by a business that replace income are subject to GET."

... Lawmakers can be very crafty and propose things that don’t look like taxes ....

... Governor Dorothy’s two bills died in the Legislature ....

... DLNR Land Division failed to bill/collect the proper base rents for the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel lease and failed to collect over $500,000 ....

... DoTax hides the EITC application form so you can't apply for the credit ....

... some legislation that has the potential to change our tax system in very bold ways ....

... people on the lower end of the income spectrum spend comparatively more of their hard-earned dollars on general excise tax ....

... HB 2088, creates a program where you could go to a lender, borrow money to make home improvements, and then repay the loan with payments that are added to your property tax bill ....

... Some that are likely to get resurrected or with their content inserted into another vehicle ....

... “wealth tax” in Senate Bill 3182 ....

... late filing penalties, which are now 5% a month but are capped at 25%, can go to 75% ....

... Medicare will only reimburse medical work at “reasonable charges” and will not reimburse the doctors for the GET they have to pay ....

... It’s 2022, and the agency is still working on 2014 and 2015 money ....

... Hold on to your wallet ....

... Want to pass one of these bills?  Go ahead, make my day! ....

... Their recommendation:  “Tax pension and other retirement income...."

... With this kind of money projected to come in the door, politicians of all stripes are staying up nights plotting and planning how to spend it ....

... The 2022 Legislative Briefings will be held via Zoom on the following Tuesdays from 7:30 am- 8:30 am ....

...  So what have we done with the federal TANF money?  We’ve let it pile up unused ....

... This is not the only recommendation the Tax Review Commission came up with ....

... a chance to get in front of lawmakers and argue that we aren’t being taxed enough ....

... these debates are meaningless ....

... DoTax wants years of back GE Taxes ....

... a “state of emergency,” which causes the Governor’s powers to kick in, is supposed to terminate automatically after sixty days ....

... Once upon a time there were some property developers on Oahu ....

... In more recent years, the Hawaii Supreme Court has been giving the tax office even more help and protection ....

... A person challenging a bill still needs to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the bill is unconstitutional.  And remember, it took a 3-2 vote to hold that recidivism and hurricane shelters are unrelated ....

... The Honolulu City Council wants to raise money for the Honolulu Police Department by adding a surcharge to traffic fines .... 

... The story you are about to read is true.  The names have not been changed to protect the innocent .... 

... So now let’s pose a challenge ....

... DOE told HSTA the Governor’s Emergency Proclamation suspends Hawaii law governing collective bargaining in public employment ....

... The memo concludes that the State did not have the power under the Hawaii Constitution to provide for four extra HART board members.  Thus, we can basically ignore the extra folks and conduct business as if they weren’t around ....

... “Growing the Good Life Begins Here” ....

... “Those people have at their disposal so many ways to flummox the tax authorities if they want to. Panamanian bearer shares corporations. Dutch sandwiches. Entities from the Isle of Man, the Caymans, or Bermuda perhaps.” ....

... How does some bureaucrat sitting in the real property tax office have any idea whether a property is vacant? ....

... HB 862 makes no provision whatsoever for joint collection. The counties are on their own ....

... One fundamental assumption that has been made over the years by our lawmakers is that if you enact a tax, money will be raised.  What if that weren’t true? ....

...What you might not have seen is the difficulty the HART board is having making decisions....

... government not only taxes people by taking their money, but also imposes administrative burdens that waste countless precious hours of people’s time ....

... Bill 17 would allow the city’s Department of Planning and Permitting to record liens against property and then to foreclose on the liens....

... property may be forfeited without a court hearing, without compensation, and at times, without even a criminal charge filed against the property owner. ...

... rent for the property was $100,000 while subleases of the same property brought in $300,000 ....

... On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued the “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy.”  There wasn’t much media coverage ....