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Monday, March 6, 2023 |
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‘Visitor impact’ fee inherently flawed
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:32 AM :: 2215 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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... your cousins will have to pay hundreds of dollars to go to the family barbecue at Ala Moana Beach Park ....
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Sunday, March 5, 2023 |
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A Deep Dive into the Governor’s Tax-Cut Proposal
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:56 PM :: 1661 Views :: Taxes
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... tax proposals introduced at the Legislature, the outlook for the state budget, and where Hawaii is at in paying off its debt and unfunded liabilities ....
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Sunday, March 5, 2023 |
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Love-Hate Relationship with Tourism
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2171 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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... We have been taxing the bejeebers out of tourists ....
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Saturday, March 4, 2023 |
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‘Wealth Tax’ has a wealth of problems
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:31 PM :: 2261 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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... Difficulty in administering a “wealth tax” is the primary reason there are only three European countries with wealth taxes today, down from 12 in 1990 ....
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Saturday, March 4, 2023 |
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Proposed new category for ‘transient vacation’ rentals would burden residents
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:19 PM :: 2109 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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... this classification creates a significant tax burden for landlords — even those renting to working class families ....
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Saturday, March 4, 2023 |
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Congressional Delegation Calls on IRS to Exempt Red Hill Assistance
By Ed Case @ 2:23 AM :: 2062 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Military, Taxes
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“...Just as assistance provided to individuals by the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Stafford Act is exempted under Section 139 of the Internal Revenue Code, we believe the Red Hill emergency assistance should also be exempted....”
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023 |
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Sheriffs Bust Waikiki Marijuana Dealer
By News Release @ 11:06 PM :: 2598 Views :: Taxes, Tourism, Drugs
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“Businesses that are involved in the cannabis industry must ensure that their activities comply with the law.”
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Monday, February 20, 2023 |
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Bill 2891: Retroactive property tax credit for Kauai?
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:28 PM :: 1875 Views :: Kauai County, Taxes
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... the proposed tax credit could be critical for some property owners who might otherwise have to increase the rents of their tenants ....
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Sunday, February 19, 2023 |
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PILOT for Real Property Tax
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2993 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Agriculture, Tax Credits, Taxes
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... The owner in the previous year paid $30,154 in property tax and got a bill for $835,710, resulting in an extremely unhappy owner ....
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Saturday, February 18, 2023 |
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What is Hawaii’s General Excise Tax?
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:11 PM :: 2098 Views :: Taxes
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... the excise tax is a tax on the total revenues of the businesses, at every transaction level, from manufacturing to wholesale to retail ....
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Thursday, February 16, 2023 |
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Senate Committees Advance Bill Legalizing Hashish and Honey Butane Oil
By News Release @ 3:32 PM :: 2687 Views :: Taxes, Drugs
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... The measure would also exempt the sales of cannabis and manufactured cannabis products for medical use from the general excise tax ....
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023 |
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HB1049 Cuts Income Tax
By News Release @ 8:47 PM :: 1945 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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... restructure the state's income tax brackets and lower income tax for all brackets, double the standard deduction for individual filers from $2,200 to $5,000, and double the personal exemption from $1,144 to $2,288 ....
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023 |
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Hawaii GET Taxes 119% of Personal Income
By Tax Foundation @ 12:39 AM :: 2442 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... Hawaii has the broadest sales tax in the United States, it taxes many products multiple times ....
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Sunday, February 12, 2023 |
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Multiple tax hikes moving through the Legislature
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:09 PM :: 2866 Views :: Taxes
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... there are still tax hikes moving through the Legislature, threatening to further increase Hawaii’s already-astronomical cost of living ....
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Sunday, February 12, 2023 |
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Get Out, Evil! Stay In, Good Fortune!
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1596 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... Japanese celebrate a festival known as Setsubun. While there are regional variations on how to celebrate it, many of them involve roasted beans and an Oni, or demon ....
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Saturday, February 11, 2023 |
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A ‘Capitol Convo’ about Hawaii’s high cost of living
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:10 PM :: 1853 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... factors that contribute to the state’s high cost of living, such as its high cost of housing, high taxes, boondoggle projects, shortage of medical professionals and more ....
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023 |
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Hawaii medical excise tax affecting patient care, physicians say
By Selected News Articles @ 4:54 AM :: 1832 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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... A Hawaii resident diagnosed with breast cancer could not find a physician to treat her ....
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Saturday, February 4, 2023 |
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Green Affordability Plan: It would be simpler to just cut the tax rate for food
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:12 PM :: 1795 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Green’s “GAP” plan seeks to provide tax credits for food, rent and child care expenses primarily to Hawaii’s lower- and middle-class families ....
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023 |
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Bills would remove GET for medical services
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:35 PM :: 983 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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... Legislators have introduced multiple bills in the 2023 legislative session that seek to remove the GET for medical services in Hawaii, either wholly or in part. They include ....
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Tuesday, January 31, 2023 |
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New report makes case for exempting medical services from Hawaii's GET
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:57 AM :: 1560 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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... removing the tax would lower medical costs and help alleviate the state's doctor shortage ....
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Sunday, January 29, 2023 |
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What’s In the Governor’s Bill Package
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1525 Views :: Taxes
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... SB 1347 / HB 1049, designated GOV-01, aims to give broad tax relief to pretty much everyone in Hawaii. It does this by juicing up several credits already on the books, giving a significant boost to the standard deduction, and doubling the personal exemption amount. ...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023 |
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There’s still time to counter higher property taxes
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:00 PM :: 1588 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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“They should look for ways to make government cost less and run more efficiently and operate on a leaner budget."
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Tuesday, January 24, 2023 |
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Green's State of the State: What's to like?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:38 AM :: 1575 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... Most compelling was the governor's proposal to increase tax deductions and support open records, but all the talk about spending was worrisome ....
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Sunday, January 22, 2023 |
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Should We Lower Taxes?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1462 Views :: Taxes
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... convince me that tax cuts are not advisable ....
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Friday, January 20, 2023 |
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National coalition including Hawaii legislators urges states to enact 'wealth' taxes
By Selected News Articles @ 2:05 AM :: 1749 Views :: Taxes
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... Rep Jeanne Kapela and Hawai'i Tax Fairness Coalition protest at State Capitol in favor of new tax ....
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Thursday, January 19, 2023 |
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Slashing tax rates best way to offset higher property assessments
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:10 PM :: 1457 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Residential A properties went up 39.9% ....
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Thursday, January 19, 2023 |
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Sister Isles Among Worst Doctor Shortage in USA
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:01 PM :: 1767 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Taxes
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... a recent national study of 3,000 counties in America found the Big Island has the third-worst shortage of healthcare providers in primary care, Maui has the fifth-worst shortage of healthcare providers in America, and Kauai has the 13th worst shortage ....
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Wednesday, January 18, 2023 |
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Hawaii targets housing reform as Legislature returns
By Selected News Articles @ 3:39 AM :: 2090 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Land Use, Tax Credits, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... 156 bills are on the current docket to be introduced in the House of Representatives and Senate ....
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Sunday, January 15, 2023 |
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How to avert the looming property tax crisis
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:10 PM :: 1964 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii’s population has been declining for six straight years, and if policymakers don’t do something quickly to avert the looming increase in county property taxes, that is likely to continue ....
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Sunday, January 15, 2023 |
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More Temporary Tax Fixes Considered
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1421 Views :: Taxes
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... We need fixes. Not the temporary kind ....
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Friday, January 13, 2023 |
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GE Tax: Audit Shows Tourists Pay 14.1%--not 30%
By Andrew Walden @ 5:21 AM :: 12345 Views :: Rail, Taxes, Tourism, Cost of Living
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...The lie that tourists pay 30% of the GE Tax is front and center as Gov Green and legislators quickly walk back Green’s fake 2022 campaign promise to eliminate the GE Tax from food and medical care....
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Sunday, January 8, 2023 |
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Tax Word Find
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1394 Views :: Taxes
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... the New Year is off and running and we are quaking in our boots waiting for our Legislature to reconvene, here are some of the ideas that we have been following ....
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Thursday, January 5, 2023 |
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Time to Reform Property Taxes: High Home Values Prompt Calls for Relief
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:16 PM :: 1542 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Akina and Iwasa discuss the history of property taxes in Hawaii, how assessments are conducted and what reforms the counties should consider ....
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Wednesday, January 4, 2023 |
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Please Cut Taxes in 2023
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:18 PM :: 1627 Views :: Taxes
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... Gov. Josh Green made eliminating the general excise tax for food and medicine one of his major talking points. And on the county level, faced with concerns about skyrocketing real estate assessments, Mayor Rick Blangiardi promised to “aggressively” pursue ways to reduce that tax burden. ....
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Tuesday, January 3, 2023 |
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Taxes, housing drive people from Hawaii, policy group says
By Selected News Articles @ 8:25 PM :: 2146 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... more than 15,000 left the state between July 2021 and July 2022 ....
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022 |
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Hawaii Among Nine States Running Long-Term Structural Deficits
By Selected News Articles @ 1:48 PM :: 1961 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... revenue will continue to fall short of spending absent policy changes ....
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Monday, December 19, 2022 |
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Counties should not profit from Hawaii's housing crisis
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:00 AM :: 2135 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... assessments of all real property on Oahu went up by 12.4% compared with the previous year. And that’s just the average ....
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022 |
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Green's plan to eliminate food and medicine tax may not have a clear path
By Selected News Articles @ 8:34 PM :: 1739 Views :: Taxes
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... Lawmakers have not indicated if they back Green's plan ....
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022 |
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2023 Real Property Assessments up 12.4%
By News Release @ 2:57 AM :: 3018 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... City to Send 2023 Real Property Notice of Assessments ....
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Sunday, December 11, 2022 |
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New Administration’s Tax Priorities
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2264 Views :: Taxes
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... Green's top priorities for his first 100 days in office ....
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Monday, December 5, 2022 |
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Ige Announces Completion of over 600,000 Refunds to Hawaii Taxpayers
By News Release @ 3:32 PM :: 1809 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits, Taxes
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... A total of 606,674 Act 115 refunds were issued, totaling $307.9 million. That includes 288,590 direct deposits and 318,084 paper checks ....
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Sunday, November 27, 2022 |
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Economic Freedom: Hawaii Ranks 48th
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:30 PM :: 1783 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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“...our residents will continue to suffer and flee the state....”
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Sunday, November 27, 2022 |
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No, Boosting the Affordable Housing Fund Isn’t the Answer
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2000 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Taxes
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"... it is essentially a budgeting gimmick ...."
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Sunday, November 20, 2022 |
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It's a perfect time to cut taxes
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:13 AM :: 1793 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... many Hawaii families are taking a hard look at their finances and calculating how inflation and recession will affect their holiday plans, if not their entire economic futures ....
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Monday, November 14, 2022 |
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UHERO: Visitors-only fee may be illegal
By UHERO @ 6:44 PM :: 2181 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes, Tourism
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... Rethinking HTA’s “Regenerative Tourism Fee” ....
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Thursday, November 10, 2022 |
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Why is there a doctor shortage in Hawaii?
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:55 PM :: 2975 Views :: Health Care, Small Business, Taxes
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... The state is short more than 1,000 doctors, which means some patients cannot get care, and the ones who do have to wait a long time. ...
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Sunday, November 6, 2022 |
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The Empty Homes Tax
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2390 Views :: Development, Taxes, Tourism
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... The idea seems to be gaining steam now since our federal court has struck down Honolulu’s recent ordinance clamping down on transient vacation rentals ....
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Saturday, November 5, 2022 |
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Unemployment Trust Fund Grows to $205M
By News Release @ 3:58 AM :: 2288 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Small Business, Taxes
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... Hawaii’s unemployment insurance (UI) program is funded exclusively by employers via state and federal payroll taxes on wages ....
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Tuesday, October 25, 2022 |
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2023 State Business Tax Climate Index--Hawaii Ranks 43rd
By Tax Foundation @ 10:46 PM :: 1631 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... The Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index enables business leaders, government policymakers, and taxpayers to gauge how their states’ tax systems compare ....
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