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Tuesday, April 18, 2017 |
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Rich States-Poor States: Hawaii Ranks 43rd
By News Release @ 10:13 PM :: 7258 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...after the Legislature finishes raising taxes, Hawaii will be back up to 50th....
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017 |
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Hawaii: April 19 is Tax Freedom Day
By Selected News Articles @ 3:17 PM :: 4504 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, 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 16, 2017 |
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Tax Casualty? Maui County Carnival
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6555 Views :: Maui County, Jones Act, Taxes
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The 2nd Annual Maui County Carnival, scheduled for April 6-9, 2017, has been cancelled. Skyrocketing state government fees have been blamed....
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Saturday, April 15, 2017 |
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Study: House GOP Blueprint Would Put $5613 in Your Pocket, Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 4:58 AM :: 4484 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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There have been a raft of studies recently isolating the effect of certain elements of the House GOP tax reform “Blueprint” on various industries and even the 50 states....
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Friday, April 14, 2017 |
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House Approves Massive Rail Tax Hike and 37 Other Bills
By News Release @ 2:52 AM :: 6067 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Rail, Taxes
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...an additional $1.2 billion funding package for the City’s financially troubled rail project....
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Thursday, April 13, 2017 |
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To What Extent Does Your State Rely on Property Taxes?
By Selected News Articles @ 9:11 PM :: 4580 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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This is the first in a four-part map series in which we will examine the primary sources of state and local tax collections....
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017 |
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Caldwell Signs Tax Hikes, Spending Bills
By News Release @ 2:57 AM :: 6538 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Taxes
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“This shows that the city is committed to funding and completing the rail project,” said Mayor Caldwell....
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Sunday, April 9, 2017 |
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CreditAbles
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 5143 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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Terms being bandied about include exemptions, deductions, and tax credits, and among tax credits there are the “CreditAbles” – refundable, nonrefundable, and assignable credits.....
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017 |
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Hawaii 2nd-Highest Tax Burden in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 8:54 PM :: 5159 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Total Tax Burden: 11.27% – #2 in USA....
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Sunday, April 2, 2017 |
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Economic Nexus: Solving the Online Tax Dodge
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 3913 Views :: Taxes
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...SB 620 would redefine how our general excise tax laws define “doing business”....
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Friday, March 31, 2017 |
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After $2B in Tax Credits, High Tech Scammers Pay Only $27M in Taxes
By News Release @ 6:35 PM :: 6446 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Tax Credits, Taxes
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After burning $2B, the state received a pathetic $27.1 million in taxes from 150 companies tied to the High Technology Development Corporation....
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Friday, March 31, 2017 |
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Hawaii lawmakers barreling toward $1 billion spending increase
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:10 PM :: 5327 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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Hawaii lawmakers would like us to believe that they are cutting the state budget in the current legislative session, but it’s not true....
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017 |
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Taxpayer Return on Investment? Hawaii ranks 49th
By Selected News Articles @ 8:15 PM :: 4911 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...contrasting state and local tax collections with the quality of the services residents receive....
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Sunday, March 26, 2017 |
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Yes, Toto, Tourists Also Pay Real Property Tax
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6468 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, Taxes
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...this study appeared to be an outgrowth of a move by our teachers’ union....
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Sunday, March 19, 2017 |
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A Constitutional Amendment for Education Wars, Part 2
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5233 Views :: Education K-12, Taxes
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...two bills are moving through the legislature on this subject....
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017 |
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Grassroot Institute Urges Caution in Light of New Revenue Projection
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:12 AM :: 4920 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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...Watchdog Group Says State Budget Must be Reevaluated....
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Sunday, March 12, 2017 |
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A Constitutional Amendment for Education Wars
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 6305 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, Taxes
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The "shall make sufficient sums available" language is used in one more place in our constitution. It's in Article XII, Section 1, relating to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands....
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Friday, March 10, 2017 |
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Is Hawaii's Hotel Room Tax Law Obsolete?
By UHERO @ 6:59 PM :: 4808 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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With tax collections falling behind expectations, State lawmakers are pressuring the tax department to increase effort to collect uncollected taxes from internet sales....
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Friday, March 10, 2017 |
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DBEDT Report Designed to Help HSTA Write Slush Fund into Constitution?
By News Release @ 6:21 PM :: 5771 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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DBEDT is measuring dollars not taxpayers. One out-of-state owner of a shopping mall, golf course, or hotel equals 1000s of individual local homeowners....
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Friday, March 10, 2017 |
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SB1183: A Victory for the People (for now)
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:09 PM :: 4867 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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It's true that the session is far from over. And this bill could certainly end up morphing yet again....
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Thursday, March 9, 2017 |
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“Second home” tax may put affordable homes out of reach
By Selected News Articles @ 10:23 PM :: 5102 Views :: Education K-12, Taxes
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...this policy likely would backfire and make all housing in the islands more expensive....
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Sunday, March 5, 2017 |
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One Integrated Approach to Tax Fairness?
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 3642 Views :: Taxes
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House Bill 1586 is a multi-faceted bill that seeks to change some of the characteristics of our tax system....
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Thursday, March 2, 2017 |
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What you can do to help contain taxes
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:05 PM :: 3663 Views :: Taxes
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... the Honolulu Star-Advertiser noted with apparent alarm the “uncommonly heavy load of tax proposals still moving through both state Capitol chambers” ....
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Monday, February 27, 2017 |
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Corporate Income Tax—50-State Comparison
By Selected News Articles @ 6:23 PM :: 5463 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... Hawaii Corporate Income over $100K is taxed at 6.4% ....
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Sunday, February 26, 2017 |
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Hawaii Legislature Obamacare Heavy
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 5682 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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...the amount of the penalty could be as much as $695 x 2 adults plus $695 x ½ x 3 kids = $2,432.50....
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Friday, February 24, 2017 |
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It Doesn’t Always Pay to Make More
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:04 PM :: 4485 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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In just this legislative session, we've seen attempts to make the surcharge a permanent part of life.... We've seen proposed income tax increases. There's even an attempt to write a tax...into the state Constitution....
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017 |
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Earn $50K? Hawaii Takes More From Your Paycheck Than Any Other State
By Selected News Articles @ 5:48 PM :: 5195 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...and if you earn $100K, Hawaii is 3rd-highest....
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017 |
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Forbes: Taxes Make Hawaii One of 10 Worst States for High Earners
By Selected News Articles @ 1:58 PM :: 5299 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...and Legislators are pushing HB209 to make those rates even higher....
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Sunday, February 19, 2017 |
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The Need for Tax Vigilance in 2017
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 4164 Views :: Taxes
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The sheer number of bills related to tax or public finance is staggering. It's much more frenetic this year than in any other year I've been in this position....
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Monday, February 13, 2017 |
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HSTA Rallies for $500M Tax Hike on Renters—House Approves on 2nd Read
By News Release @ 11:03 PM :: 7891 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, Taxes, Cost of Living
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...UHERO: ‘Discriminatory’ HSTA Property Tax Plan hits Renters Hardest....
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Sunday, February 12, 2017 |
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UHERO Slams the Skim
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 5621 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...the State is making a ton of money off the skim....
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Saturday, February 11, 2017 |
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HIDOT Mileage Fee: Meet Big Brother the Taxman
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 3:45 PM :: 5184 Views :: Ethics, Taxes
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...the system knows the driver's exact route, his speed compliance and provides ratings for his braking and cornering performance. Too much info in the hands of the government....
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Friday, February 10, 2017 |
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Demanding a Tax Hike, HSTA to Rally at Capitol
By News Release @ 7:29 PM :: 6811 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, Taxes
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to lobby for a constitutional amendment that will drastically increase property taxes....
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Thursday, February 9, 2017 |
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2017 Honolulu Rail: Advice to the Legislature
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 3:56 AM :: 5198 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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The Legislature should not approve any extensions of the GET and it should pass a bill directing the city to handle current and future deficits with its own resources. This offers hope for some accountability and cost containment....
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017 |
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A 1-2 punch of tax proposals
By Rachelle Chang @ 12:25 PM :: 7326 Views :: Honolulu County, Education K-12, Rail, Taxes
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The State kept 10% of the surcharge collected or $25.92 million – which is more than the Department of Taxation’s entire Fiscal Year 2016 operating budget of $24 million....
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Sunday, February 5, 2017 |
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Vacation Rentals: Tax Hike Bills on the Move in the Legislature
By Selected News Articles @ 6:47 PM :: 6501 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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There are 20 bills currently on the table dealing with vacation rentals....
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Sunday, February 5, 2017 |
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Don’t mug taxpayers to pay for Hawaii’s high cost of living
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:01 AM :: 4029 Views :: Taxes
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...give everybody a pay raise--by cutting taxes....
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Sunday, February 5, 2017 |
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Unfunded Pensions – Tip of the Iceberg?
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 6218 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Taxes
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Is a 7% return on investment sustainable into the future? Another organization that studied the issue said that a more realistic rate of return would be the “risk-free” rate, which they calculated at 2.344%....
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Sunday, February 5, 2017 |
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SB938: End the State Rail Tax Skim
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:37 AM :: 4858 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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the Department of Taxation has been allowed to keep a full 10% of the rail surcharge for the costs of administering it, despite the fact that the law directs DOTAX to calculate how much is required for its management of the surcharge, then return the remainder to the rail project....
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Saturday, February 4, 2017 |
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UHERO: ‘Discriminatory’ HSTA Property Tax Plan hits Renters Hardest
By UHERO @ 12:22 AM :: 7337 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, Taxes
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...an owner of an investment property in Honolulu worth less than half a million dollars can expect to see his (her) combined City and State property tax bill double....
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Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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Hawaii GE Tax Bites into 99.21% of personal income
By Tax Foundation @ 4:52 PM :: 4652 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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Hawaii has the broadest sales tax in the United States, but it taxes many products multiple times and, by one estimate, ultimately taxes 99.21 percent of the state’s personal income....
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Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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UHERO: The Exorbitant Cost of Collecting Honolulu’s Rail Surcharge Tax
By UHERO @ 1:43 AM :: 4830 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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Hawaii’s State Government has unnecessarily profited from the Honolulu rail project....
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Thursday, February 2, 2017 |
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Recycling Company Cited for Water Pollution
By News Release @ 10:08 AM :: 6761 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Taxes
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The company had also placed discarded materials and equipment in a drainage ditch that is recognized as a state water body and protected by state and federal regulations....
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 |
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‘Challenging and exciting times’
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:07 PM :: 5172 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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...challenging times include high shipping costs, high taxes, a high rate of public sector unionism, shaky government pension programs, inadequate housing supply and pervasive homelessness, excessive business and employment regulations, cronyism and corruption....
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 |
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SB938: Eliminate DoTax 10% Rail Skim
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:58 PM :: 5633 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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Grassroot Institute Urges Legislature to Act on Surcharge "Skimming"....
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Friday, January 27, 2017 |
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Governor says treat symptoms, not causes of our economic woes
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:42 PM :: 5032 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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3,600 words full of spending proposals and sunny guarantees about the future....
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017 |
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Making property taxes less taxing
By Rachelle Chang @ 11:58 PM :: 4685 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes
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A few weeks ago, Hawaii homeowners received their 2017 property tax assessments. It was not a pleasant way to end the holidays or start the new year....
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Sunday, January 22, 2017 |
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Funding Nonexistent People
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6330 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Taxes
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...our state government paid half a million dollars in pension payments to people who were already dead. Well, then, what do you think of budgeting many times that amount for people who don’t even exist?....
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Thursday, January 19, 2017 |
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Privatize: “Not one penny more for rail"
By Rep Gene Ward @ 1:08 PM :: 5354 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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"We’ve got to wake up and sell development rights along the rail, like they do in Japan and Hong Kong."
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017 |
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Hawaii Among Most Expensive States for Smokers
By Selected News Articles @ 1:55 PM :: 5549 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Taxes
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...Total Cost Per Smoker: $2,048,587....
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