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Thursday, July 22, 2021 |
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Lockdowns lower the bar for rule of law
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:33 PM :: 2272 Views :: Small Business, COVID-19
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... Bill Comerford tells how Hawaii’s arbitrary lockdowns turned his world upside down ....
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Sunday, July 18, 2021 |
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Shoring Up Water Transportation
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 3054 Views :: Jones Act, Small Business, Cost of Living
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... On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued the “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” There wasn’t much media coverage ....
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Friday, July 16, 2021 |
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Hawaii Unemployment Rate Drops to 7.7%
By News Release @ 11:12 PM :: 2789 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Small Business
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... Hawaii no longer has the nation’s highest unemployment rate ....
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Thursday, July 15, 2021 |
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Ige: Eviction Moratorium Ends August 6
By News Release @ 10:34 PM :: 2139 Views :: Small Business, COVID-19
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... Ige today formally notified the Hawai‘i State Legislature and Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald that he will not be issuing any further eviction moratoria once the current moratorium expires on Aug. 6 ....
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Thursday, July 15, 2021 |
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DBEDT Projects Support Military Contracting
By News Release @ 10:20 PM :: 2370 Views :: Military, Small Business
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...“The emerging digital and clean energy in Hawai‘i is well aligned with the mission and purpose of Hawaii’s Defense Economy,” said Mike McCartney, director of DBEDT....
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021 |
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Sue and Settle: Eco Group 'Sues' BLNR to Stop Aquarium Fishing
By News Release @ 5:11 AM :: 2626 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Small Business
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... Today’s complaint, filed in Hawai‘i Circuit Court in Honolulu, challenges the board’s failure to reject the latest environmental impact statement submitted by trade representatives, which the group says violates state environmental protection laws ....
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Friday, July 2, 2021 |
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Akina rides with Perry & The Posse to lament the 'tracks of our tiers'
By News Release @ 5:19 AM :: 2761 Views :: Small Business, Tourism, COVID-19
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“Just when you think we’d reached the prize, somebody moves our cheese. But what that really shows is a lack of transparency about the tier system.”
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021 |
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53,000 Unemployed in Hawaiʻi, But State Chamber Dealing with Employee Shortages
By News Release @ 3:55 PM :: 2783 Views :: Labor, Small Business, COVID-19
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... in April 2021 the state of Hawaiʻi had 53,000 people unemployed and 27,415 job openings ....
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Monday, June 21, 2021 |
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Four More Unlicensed Crypto Currency Dealers for Hawaii
By News Release @ 4:16 AM :: 2774 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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... Admittance into the DCIL enables the companies to conduct business in Hawaii without first obtaining a state money transmitter license ....
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021 |
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Free Money from the Sky: Another $100 for MEUCs
By News Release @ 9:43 PM :: 2629 Views :: Labor, Small Business, COVID-19
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... Department of Labor & Industrial Relations (DLIR) today announced it will start processing MEUC applications beginning on June 17, 2021 ....
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Sunday, June 13, 2021 |
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Taxing Government Largesse
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2810 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, COVID-19
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...“Landlords are subject to GET on these amounts whether the payments are received from the tenants or directly from the agency that administers the relief program on behalf of the tenant.” The same reasoning applies to income tax, federal and state....
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021 |
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DLNR: Tourists Must Pay $20 to Go Fish
By News Release @ 2:12 AM :: 3015 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, Tourism
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... Today, Gov. David Ige signed House Bill 1023 into law. It establishes and requires a marine recreational fishing license for all non-Hawai‘i residents ....
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021 |
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HB1019: Ige Signs $30M Fee Hike on Dive Tours
By News Release @ 12:56 AM :: 3024 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Taxes, Tourism
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... Depending on tourism numbers, the user fee could generate anywhere from $14 million to more than $30 million over 15 years ....
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Friday, June 4, 2021 |
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DLIR: Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Recipients will Have to Look for Work
By News Release @ 6:11 AM :: 2135 Views :: Small Business, COVID-19
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... PUA claimants will need to begin reporting the three job contacts on June 20, 2021 ....
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Thursday, June 3, 2021 |
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Taxes: How Hawaii Can Gouge Teleworkers
By News Release @ 5:52 AM :: 2356 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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... Taxing teleworking income from different states ....
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Saturday, May 29, 2021 |
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Ige: More Re-openings at 60% Vaccination Rate
By News Release @ 3:09 AM :: 3177 Views :: Maui County, Small Business, Tourism, COVID-19
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... wait until the State of Hawaii has vaccinated at least 60 percent of residents before allowing higher occupancy ....
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021 |
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Act 18 Streamlines Professional Licensing for Military Spouses
By News Release @ 11:44 PM :: 6575 Views :: Military, Small Business
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... Act 18 streamlines the process to obtain a temporary license for a military spouse in good standing with another state – allowing Hawaiʻi to tap qualified professionals to fill positions where there are shortages, such as social workers, counselors, and physicians ....
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Thursday, May 20, 2021 |
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Job Search Requirement Reinstated for Unemployed
By News Release @ 8:59 PM :: 2589 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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... Hawai‘i residents currently receiving unemployment insurance benefits will again be required to prove they are searching for work starting May 30 ....
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Sunday, May 16, 2021 |
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General Excise Exemptions to be Shut Off for Two Years?
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 3508 Views :: Small Business, Tax Credits, Taxes
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... “Frankenbill” House Bill 58 has cleared the Legislature and is on the Governor’s desk waiting to become law ....
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Thursday, May 13, 2021 |
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$10M Taxpayer Money in 'High Tech' Giveaways
By News Release @ 8:58 PM :: 1899 Views :: Small Business, COVID-19
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"... to 36 small businesses across Hawaii for PPE manufacturing ...."
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Thursday, May 13, 2021 |
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Expanded Marine Protections Benefited Hawaii Tuna Fishery, Study Shows
By Selected News Articles @ 12:22 AM :: 2230 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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... Major fleets' catch and revenue rose after enlargement of two marine monuments ....
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Thursday, May 6, 2021 |
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O‘ahu to continue in Tier 3 four more weeks
By News Release @ 9:15 PM :: 2668 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, COVID-19
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... while the county and the state work together on incorporating vaccination counts on O‘ahu into modified metrics for the Tier system ....
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Thursday, May 6, 2021 |
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44% of small-businesses have job openings they can't fill
By News Release @ 8:15 PM :: 2621 Views :: Small Business, COVID-19
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... This number is 22 points higher than the 48-year historical average ....
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021 |
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021 |
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OHA aide accused of wire fraud--Tried to Flee Country
By Selected News Articles @ 5:49 PM :: 3975 Views :: Ethics, OHA, Small Business
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... Court documents said Harleman used his firm, Precision Accounting Hawaii, to defraud an Oahu landscaping business out more than $415,000 ....
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021 |
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Survey: Best Hawaii Towns to Start Small Business
By Selected News Articles @ 7:21 PM :: 2578 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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... Hilo is the best, Waipahu is the worst ....
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Sunday, April 18, 2021 |
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Is the Pacific Ocean now “ceded land?”
By Andrew Walden @ 11:46 PM :: 3929 Views :: OHA, Small Business, Taxes, Tourism
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... HB1019, creating a new OHA revenue stream at the expense of small dive-tour businesses, is quietly heading to conference committee ....
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Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
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Fourth Hawaiʻi Commercial Rent Survey Shows Some Recovery
By News Release @ 2:52 AM :: 2482 Views :: Small Business, COVID-19
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... 40 percent of businesses did not pay rent in full versus 50 percent in the third survey ....
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021 |
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Mokuleia Crash: A Nest of Incompetents Surrounding 11 Deaths
By News Release @ 11:05 PM :: 4516 Views :: Small Business, Tourism
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... Accident Involving Inadequately Trained Pilot Leads to Call for Better Monitoring of Flight Instructors ....
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Monday, April 12, 2021 |
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Hawaii Small Businesses Among Most Exposed to Pandemic Losses
By Selected News Articles @ 12:17 PM :: 2521 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, COVID-19
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... States With the Most Pandemic-Proof Small Businesses -- Hawaii 50th ....
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Monday, April 12, 2021 |
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SB251 Favors Uber/Lyft at Expense of Local Companies
By News Release @ 12:03 PM :: 1910 Views :: Small Business
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... “The true intent of this effort is to create a façade of regulation that will allow the TNC’s to bypass all the current rules, regulations and taxes that Hawaii based operators must comply with.” ....
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021 |
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O‘ahu businesses and activities to continue operations in Tier 3
By News Release @ 11:22 PM :: 2622 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, COVID-19
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... Honolulu will continue to operate in Tier 3 of the reopening strategy for the next four weeks, meaning O‘ahu businesses and activities will continue operations without reverting back to the Tier 2 framework ....
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Saturday, April 3, 2021 |
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Help for Native Hawaiian Businesses Facing the COVID Storm
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:15 AM :: 2827 Views :: OHA, Small Business, COVID-19
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... Native Hawaiians own 3,147 firms in Hawaiʻi, constituting 11.1% of all businesses in the state ....
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021 |
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Is Bitcoin illegal in Hawaii?
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:27 PM :: 3180 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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... options to buy crypto are very limited at the moment. That’s because of a little-known rule from a little-known government organization ....
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021 |
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Public hearing set on Honolulu short-term rental draft rules
By News Release @ 10:53 PM :: 2942 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, Tourism
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... DPP will hold a public hearing April 6 on draft rules to regulate and register short-term rentals on O‘ahu ....
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021 |
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Should Hawaii Raise Taxes on 'the Rich'?
By Video @ 4:38 AM :: 2470 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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... state policymakers are determined to raise taxes with bills such as SB56 and HB58. They say their hikes are aimed at 'the rich', but they’re not looking at the whole economic picture ....
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Monday, March 29, 2021 |
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Fools. No Joke: Plastic Ware to be Outlawed Effective April 1
By News Release @ 9:47 PM :: 3281 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Small Business
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... Bill 40 or the Disposable Food Ware Ordinance (DFWO), takes effect April 1, 2021 ....
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Friday, March 26, 2021 |
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Outdoor Weddings up to 100 People Now Allowed on Oahu
By News Release @ 10:24 PM :: 2984 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, Tourism, COVID-19
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... the request to modify Honolulu’s COVID-19 recovery framework to include “weddings” as a category has been approved and is effective immediately ....
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Saturday, March 20, 2021 |
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Hawaii: Highest Paid Waiters in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 7:21 PM :: 2945 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Small Business
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... Hawaii Waiters/Waitresses: average annual wage: $55,200; employment: 19,500 ....
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Friday, March 19, 2021 |
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Mayor Blangiardi meets with wedding industry demonstrators
By News Release @ 6:38 PM :: 3227 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, Tourism, COVID-19
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... Mayor Rick Blangiardi listened to members of the wedding industry during a demonstration outside of Honolulu Hale ....
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021 |
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Raising Hawaii taxes could worsen MD shortage
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:58 PM :: 3342 Views :: Health Care, Small Business, Taxes
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... Lawmakers may impose the highest income tax in the nation on Hawaii residents making over $200,000, and this may be damaging to Hawaii's health system ....
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021 |
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98 percent of Hawaiʻi residents say small business is important to Hawaiʻi
By News Release @ 4:47 AM :: 2179 Views :: Small Business, COVID-19
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... The “Peopleʻs Pulse Survey,” in partnership with OmniTrak and with the support of Central Pacific Bank Foundation, highlights the urgency of helping businesses through this extremely difficult time, Chamber President and CEO Sherry Menor-McNamara said....
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Monday, March 15, 2021 |
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New COVID Relief Law Creates $29 Billion Grant Program For Local Restaurants, Bars
By News Release @ 8:08 PM :: 2677 Views :: Small Business, Tourism, COVID-19
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... The grant is equal to the business’s pandemic-related revenue loss: 2019 gross receipts minus 2020 gross receipts ....
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Sunday, March 14, 2021 |
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C’mon, Let’s Soak the Rich!
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:00 AM :: 2392 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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... a kind of crabs-in-the-bucket argument ....
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Friday, March 5, 2021 |
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New Survey: 50% of Hawaii businesses not paying rent
By News Release @ 6:59 PM :: 2992 Views :: Economy, Small Business, COVID-19
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... 1,126 Hawaiʻi business owners share their feedback ....
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021 |
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Ige Signs Bill Lowering Unemployment Tax
By News Release @ 8:24 PM :: 3071 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Taxes, COVID-19
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... The measure allows employers to pay, on average, less than half of what they would otherwise pay into the system ....
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Sunday, February 28, 2021 |
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More Taxes for Movies and TV
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:25 AM :: 2591 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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... “I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.” ....
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Saturday, February 27, 2021 |
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Hawaii Among States Taxing Forgiven PPP Loans
By Tax Foundation @ 7:36 PM :: 5521 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, COVID-19
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... If policymakers wish to avoid imposing taxes on these small business lifelines they need to act quickly, as tax deadlines are fast approaching ....
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