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Friday, July 10, 2015 |
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Hawaii GE Tax 'Broadest Sales Tax in US'
By Selected News Articles @ 10:03 PM :: 5292 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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Hawaii taxes many products multiple times and, by one estimate, ultimately taxes 99.21 percent of the state's personal income....
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015 |
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Tax Spirits? In Hawaii its $5.98 / gallon
By Selected News Articles @ 5:23 PM :: 6674 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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Today’s map shows how spirit excise taxes in your state compare....
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Sunday, July 5, 2015 |
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And the Lowsman Trophy Goes To…Hawaii!
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5113 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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Fortunately, our lawmakers are allowing the three top rates to die a natural death at the end of this year with our highest marginal rate a more modest 8.25%....
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015 |
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Video: A Fiscal Cliff for Hawaii?
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:04 PM :: 5982 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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...Senate Minority Budget Director Paul Harleman about the current economic status of Hawaii and his concerns for the state's future financial stability....
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Monday, June 29, 2015 |
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Ige Releases ‘Intent to Veto’ List
By News Release @ 9:15 PM :: 5842 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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Ige has informed the Hawai‘i State Legislature of his intent to veto the following bills....
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Sunday, June 28, 2015 |
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Independence Means Freedom from Special Funds
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5239 Views :: Taxes
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Special funds are pots of money....
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015 |
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Wine Taxes: Hawaii Ranks 12th
By Selected News Articles @ 3:27 PM :: 5948 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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Check out today’s map below to see where your state lies on the wine tax spectrum....
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Sunday, June 21, 2015 |
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Pay Higher Taxes?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4170 Views :: Taxes
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...we don’t want to inflict a disproportionate amount of pain on our friends....
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Sunday, June 14, 2015 |
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Where’s the Tax Stamp on that Eggplant?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 7387 Views :: Agriculture, Health Care, Taxes
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...many common vegetables contain nicotine....
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Friday, June 12, 2015 |
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NextEra Behind Bogus Windfarm Tax Credit Study
By Selected News Articles @ 5:10 PM :: 7571 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...federal subsidies to wind power do not create investment out of nowhere; they simply distort the relative cost of producing wind energy, shifting investments from other sectors of the economy to wind projects....
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Friday, June 12, 2015 |
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Sales Tax Collections Per Capita: Hawaii Ranks #2 in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 4:22 PM :: 6202 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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Hawaii collects $2,088 per person....
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Thursday, June 11, 2015 |
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US House Votes to Permanently Ban Hawaii's Tax on Internet Access
By Selected News Articles @ 10:53 AM :: 4766 Views :: Taxes
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The Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act now goes to the Senate....
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Monday, June 8, 2015 |
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Travel Assoc: FAA Bill before Congress Should Cut Taxes on Airfares
By News Release @ 12:42 PM :: 5287 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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Organization presents comprehensive policy platform to lower aviation taxes, promote airline competition and fix air travel infrastructure in coming FAA reauthorization....
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Sunday, June 7, 2015 |
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Whither the Resort Fee?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6798 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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By adding a resort fee of $25 to a room rate of $125, the hotel brings in $150 per night but it can advertise a $125 room rate....
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Saturday, June 6, 2015 |
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Hawaii Cigarette Taxes 5th Highest in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 1:47 PM :: 6379 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...could cause budgetary problems as cigarette tax revenues are on the decline as less and less people smoke....
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Friday, May 29, 2015 |
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Income Tax Per Capita: Hawaii Ranks 15th
By Selected News Articles @ 10:57 AM :: 5570 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...state and local combined individual income tax collections per person....
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015 |
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Study: Honolulu Property Taxes Among Lowest in USA
By News Release @ 4:41 PM :: 9388 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Land Use, Taxes
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The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy released the annual 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study, a comprehensive analysis of effective property tax rates in each state’s largest city....
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Sunday, May 24, 2015 |
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Unfunded Liabilities – Smoke and Mirrors?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6950 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Taxes
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...what actually goes into this “unfunded liability” calculation....
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Saturday, May 23, 2015 |
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2015 Legislative Recap: Victories for Social and Economic Justice
By News Release @ 9:27 PM :: 5690 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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The 2015 Legislative session ended earlier this month with three of Hawaii Appleseed's top priorities being passed!
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Friday, May 22, 2015 |
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Beer Taxes: Hawaii 5th Highest
By Selected News Articles @ 2:39 PM :: 6930 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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“...taxes are the single most expensive ingredient in beer, costing more than labor and raw materials combined....”
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Sunday, May 17, 2015 |
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We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6329 Views :: National News, Taxes
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...three big issues that are holding us back in international competitiveness....
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Sunday, May 10, 2015 |
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Whose Tax Is It, Anyway? (Part 2)
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5484 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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A double standard on an important issue like this is a great way to breed derision and distrust of government....
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Friday, May 8, 2015 |
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Death Taxes: How Does Hawaii Compare?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:10 PM :: 6252 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Estate and inheritance taxes have large compliance costs, have been shown to suppress entrepreneurship, and are among the most harmful taxes to economic growth....
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015 |
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Rail Tax Hike: How They Voted
By Andrew Walden @ 1:14 AM :: 7593 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Taxes
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Senate 21-4 : House 39-12
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Sunday, May 3, 2015 |
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NextEra: Legalized Tax Fraud
By News Release @ 2:40 PM :: 7980 Views :: Environment, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...Total federal income tax breaks from 2008 through 2012: $4.2 billion....
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Sunday, May 3, 2015 |
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Whose Tax Is It, Anyway? (Part 1)
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5798 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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A few days ago, the United States Tax Court decided a case that is important to small business owners....
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
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Desperate to Push GE Tax Hike Thru, HART Pretends Property Tax Hike is Only Alternative
By News Release @ 3:07 AM :: 7653 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Taxes
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Watch HART try to pitch a Property Tax hike in order to make the GE tax seem palatable....
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Sunday, April 26, 2015 |
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The Magical Appearing Tax
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6345 Views :: Taxes, Drugs
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34.228%! Imagine any customer seeing that kind of tax on the bill!
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Friday, April 24, 2015 |
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Suffering Loss of Tobacco Tax Revenues, Health Department Applauds Act 19 Restrictions on E-Cigs
By News Release @ 4:39 PM :: 5607 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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"While tobacco use among Hawaii’s public middle and high school students has declined over the past decade, e-cigarette use has been increasing rapidly."
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Friday, April 24, 2015 |
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One Simple State Tax Code Tweak to Favor Marijuana Taxpayers over Tax Evaders
By Selected News Articles @ 12:45 PM :: 5911 Views :: Taxes, Drugs
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Perhaps the largest expenses these operators are forbidden from deducting under § 280E are the excise taxes and license fees they pay to the state....
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
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HART GE Tax Receipts $9M Above Expectations
By News Release @ 9:54 PM :: 5791 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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“We now have collected nearly $1.47 billion in local revenue funding for rail”
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015 |
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25% Tax Would Make State Senior Partner in Marijuana Business
By Andrew Walden @ 5:47 AM :: 8793 Views :: Taxes, Drugs
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...HB321, SD2 proposes a 15% gross proceeds tax and a 10% special sales tax on so-called 'medical' marijuana sold in Hawaii....
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 |
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SB 555 - Increasing the Food/Excise Tax Credit
By News Release @ 3:38 PM :: 6934 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes, Cost of Living
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Hawaii levies the second highest tax burden in the country on its low-income families. A major reason for this is the General Excise tax....
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 |
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Report: Illegals Pay $31M in Hawaii State Taxes
By News Release @ 3:36 PM :: 4941 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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A new 50-state study, Undocumented Immigrants’ State and Local Tax Contributions, by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy....
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 |
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Smoking It Out
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4899 Views :: Taxes
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HB145 has quite a history. It started as a bill to limit the tobacco tax on large cigars to 50 cents per cigar....
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Thursday, April 16, 2015 |
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Small Business Tax Index -- Hawaii 47th
By News Release @ 5:26 PM :: 5125 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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This year’s edition of the Index pulls together 23 different tax measures....
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015 |
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Forbes Worst States for Taxes: Hawaii 31st
By Selected News Articles @ 4:20 PM :: 5433 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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Many states have a graduated system — the most complicated one is Hawaii....
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015 |
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Hawaii Has Most Tax Brackets of Any State
By Selected News Articles @ 3:45 PM :: 4768 Views :: Taxes
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...three states have ten or more tax brackets, led by Hawaii with twelve....
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015 |
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Senate Passes Rail Surcharge Extension, State to Skim $496M
By Sen. Sam Slom @ 2:54 AM :: 6540 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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Senators Russell Ruderman, Glenn Wakai, Lee Ihara, Mike Gabbard and Gilbert Keith-Agaran voted in the affirmative but with reservations. A no vote at this stage serves to exclude the person voting no from participating in the Conference Committee....
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015 |
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Stop the Rail GET Surcharge Extension Bills
By News Release @ 5:38 AM :: 5897 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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HB134 will be voted on this Tuesday - 4/14 - in the State Senate....
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Sunday, April 12, 2015 |
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Rail Tax: If You Don't Ask You Don't Get
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6948 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...we are getting closer to a resolution on the two bills that are seeking to extend the life of the 0.5% Oahu county surcharge on our general excise tax....
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Thursday, April 9, 2015 |
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Rail Tax: 2022 Sunset is Only Remaining Check on HART Spending
By Natalie Iwasa @ 2:58 AM :: 5975 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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The only way to contain costs is to force HART to live within its current means....
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015 |
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Hawaii GE Tax: Broadest Sales Tax in US
By Selected News Articles @ 2:18 PM :: 5533 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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The Hawaii GET taxes many products multiple times and, by one estimate, ultimately taxes 99.21 percent of the state's personal income....
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Monday, April 6, 2015 |
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Senate Minority Alternative Budget cuts spending, caps collective bargaining
By Sen. Sam Slom @ 5:13 PM :: 8561 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Republican Party, Taxes
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"It brings relief to our beleaguered taxpayers and small businesses, and balances our state finances in the long term."
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 |
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Hawaii Tax Freedom Day--April 19, 2015
By News Release @ 4:13 PM :: 5693 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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Hawaii will be the 25th state to reach Tax Freedom Day, 5 days earlier than national average....
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Sunday, March 29, 2015 |
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No Junior, You Can't Borrow the Car… I Sold It Last Century
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:01 AM :: 4789 Views :: Taxes
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...the State used to administer the property tax back in the dark ages until the 1978 Constitutional Convention....
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Monday, March 23, 2015 |
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Study: Hawaii Is the 2nd Worst State to Be Poor from a Tax Perspective
By Selected News Articles @ 1:56 PM :: 5753 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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50th – Low Income (12.30% of Income)
48th – Middle Income (10.86% of Income)
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Sunday, March 22, 2015 |
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HB1471: Barreling the Poor
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6148 Views :: Energy, Taxes
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...if HB1471 passes we are looking at a total tax of $53.2 million, which is an increase of about 25%....
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Saturday, March 21, 2015 |
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TAT: Tourist Dollars not an Infinite Resource
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:37 AM :: 5250 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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HB 169 would gradually raise the transient accommodations tax for resort time share vacation units to 9.25%....
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Saturday, March 21, 2015 |
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GE Tax: Significant negative effect to state economy
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:24 AM :: 5656 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...The current trend of increasing state and county revenues via various state tax increases and surcharges represents the sort of short-term planning that inevitably leads to economic troubles....
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