Small Business Survival Index 2010: Ranking the Policy Environment for Entrepreneurship Across the Nation

From Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council

Hawaii SBSI: 75.877 (44th Place)

Highlights:

• Highest personal income tax
• Highest consumption-based taxes
• Very high gas and diesel taxes
• Highest electric utility costs
• High individual capital gains tax
• High level of state and local government employees
• High level of state and local government spending
• High unemployment taxes
• Poor private property protections
• No individual or corporate alternative minimum tax
• Fairly low corporate capital gains tax
• Low property taxes
• Low number of health insurance mandates

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