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Friday, January 15, 2021 |
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When saving money isn't really
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:31 PM :: 3943 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Taxes, COVID-19
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... that $2 billion in “savings” is going to end up costing the taxpayers almost four times as much in the long term ....
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Sunday, January 10, 2021 |
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Scrutinize the Big Agencies!
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2963 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... There is still a lot of real estate between $0.3 billion and $1.4 billion a year ....
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Friday, January 8, 2021 |
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Don't rely on pennies from heaven
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:40 PM :: 2731 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... This week, we got our first real glimpse of Gov. David Ige’s proposed budget. ...
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Friday, January 8, 2021 |
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'You can't spend money you don't have'
By Video @ 4:15 AM :: 2854 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... Barabara Marumoto, architect of the state's legal spending cap, continues to believe Hawaii needs better budgeting practices ....
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020 |
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Hawaii 4th-Highest Champagne Taxes in USA
By Tax Foundation @ 3:58 AM :: 2759 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... if your festivities still include popping a bottle of bubbly, the champagne you toast with will be taxed ....
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Thursday, December 24, 2020 |
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$1 billion tax hike ahead?
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:59 PM :: 5318 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes, COVID-19
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... Governor being coy in new budget about tax increases totaling $1 billion ....
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Sunday, December 20, 2020 |
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Don’t Give Me Back Rent, I Want to Continue Hiding from Tax
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 4423 Views :: Law Enforcement, Small Business, Taxes, COVID-19
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... Developments during this COVID crisis have brought out tax scofflaws in some of the most unexpected ways ....
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Saturday, December 19, 2020 |
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Tax hikes coming — really?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:15 AM :: 3095 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... the only two things that are certain in life are debt and taxes ....
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020 |
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020 |
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City sends 2021 real property notice of assessments
By News Release @ 9:00 PM :: 3066 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes
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... Property owners who wish to dispute their real property assessment may file an appeal during the period of December 15, to January 15, 2021 ....
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Sunday, December 6, 2020 |
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Tale of the Tape
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3415 Views :: Economy, Taxes, COVID-19
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...“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”....
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Sunday, November 29, 2020 |
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Eighth Amendment Protects Us from Massive Tax Penalties
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2710 Views :: Taxes
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... In a case called Timbs v. Indiana decided just last year, however, the U.S. Supreme Court made a couple of key points ....
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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 |
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Unemployment Tax Blues
By Video @ 10:31 PM :: 4318 Views :: Economy, Small Business, Taxes, COVID-19
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...the looming massive increase in the state’s unemployment insurance tax....
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Friday, November 20, 2020 |
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And the hits just keep on coming!
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:46 PM :: 3536 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, COVID-19
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...When businesses across the state are fighting for their lives, the state is about to levy an enormous hike in the unemployment tax....
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Friday, November 13, 2020 |
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DoTax: Collections Down, Down, Down
By News Release @ 12:08 AM :: 3286 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes, COVID-19
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...GET down by 25.1%...TAT down by 92.8%....
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020 |
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Individual Income Taxes -- Hawaii Ranks 47th
By Tax Foundation @ 8:47 PM :: 3040 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Ranking Individual Income Taxes on the 2021 State Business Tax Climate Index....
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020 |
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Corporate Income Taxes: Hawaii Ranks 18th
By Tax Foundation @ 1:33 AM :: 3274 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Taxes
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... Ranking Corporate Income Taxes on the 2021 State Business Tax Climate Index ....
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Friday, October 30, 2020 |
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Hawaii Among Only Seven States to Tax Groceries
By Tax Foundation @ 12:59 AM :: 3331 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Tax Treatment of Groceries, Candy, and Soda Can Get Tricky....
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Sunday, October 25, 2020 |
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Making Up for Budget Shortfalls
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 3178 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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...we have a state budget hole of more than 2 billion dollars....
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020 |
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Does Your State Have a Throwback or Throwout Rule?
By Tax Foundation @ 9:33 PM :: 3160 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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... Hawaii has a throwback rule ....
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Friday, October 9, 2020 |
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Ige Grade 'D' -- Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors 2020
By Cato Foundation @ 3:28 AM :: 3679 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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...Hawaii’s general fund spending rose a hefty 5.7 percent in 2020, thus reducing the governor’s score in this report....
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Sunday, September 13, 2020 |
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State Auditor’s Review of GET Exemptions and Exclusions
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 3600 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits, Taxes
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... The Auditor was supposed to start on the first chunk last year and finish the report before the start of the 2020 legislature, but ....
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Friday, September 4, 2020 |
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Death Tax: Hawaii Highest in USA
By Tax Foundation @ 4:24 AM :: 4210 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Hawaii and Washington State have the highest estate tax top rates in the nation at 20 percent....
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Sunday, August 30, 2020 |
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Road Taxes: Hawaii Collects $125M More than it Spends
By Tax Foundation @ 12:11 AM :: 3604 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Almost every state spends more on highways than they collect in dedicated revenue from federal, state, and local sources. The only exceptions are Hawaii, Idaho, and Tennessee....
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Sunday, August 16, 2020 |
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The Doomsday Rules in the General Excise Tax
By Tom Yamachika @ 11:13 PM :: 4655 Views :: Law Enforcement, Tax Credits, Taxes, COVID-19
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...Now that the economy is down and tax revenues are in the tank, we are now seeing cases of our Department of Taxation using some particularly nasty provisions in the tax code....
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Sunday, August 2, 2020 |
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Unemployment Tax in the Nonprofit Sector
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3046 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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...employers are likely to be hit with a significant and automatic rate increase at the end of this year....
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Saturday, August 1, 2020 |
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Hawaii Gasoline Tax 6th Highest in USA
By Tax Foundation @ 9:19 PM :: 3344 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... State and Local taxes add $0.4628 per gallon -- not counting GE Tax ....
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Sunday, July 26, 2020 |
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Two Tax Bills This Year
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3953 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...Tax Foundation of Hawaii, urged the Legislature to adopt key provisions of the CARES Act although it became law in 2020. DoTAX, in testimony, proposed to adopt a few provisions and leave others on the cutting room floor....
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Thursday, July 16, 2020 |
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Hawaii has Fewest Pass-Through Businesses in USA--and 4th highest taxes
By Tax Foundation @ 7:23 PM :: 3825 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Taxes
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...Pass-through businesses, such as sole proprietorships, S corporations, and partnerships, make up a majority of businesses in the United States....
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Sunday, July 12, 2020 |
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Future of Unemployment Insurance
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 4061 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Taxes
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...unemployment insurance and how it is going to fare after the pandemic....
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Saturday, July 11, 2020 |
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Legislative Session: The good, the bad and the ugly
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:42 PM :: 4650 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government, Taxes, COVID-19
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... donning rose-colored glasses and approaching the budget shortfall as a temporary setback ....
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Thursday, July 9, 2020 |
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Hawaii GET Taxes 105 percent of the state’s personal income
By Tax Foundation @ 2:52 PM :: 4213 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, 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 105 percent of the state’s personal income. This base is far wider than the national median, where the sales tax applies to 34.25 percent of personal income....
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Thursday, July 9, 2020 |
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Hawaii Worst Taxpayer ROI in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 2:13 PM :: 3027 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...nobody pays more for less....
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Tuesday, July 7, 2020 |
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Hawaii 3rd-Highest Beer Taxes in USA
By Tax Foundation @ 5:08 AM :: 3114 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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“...Taxes are the single most expensive ingredient in beer, costing more than the labor and raw materials combined....”
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Sunday, July 5, 2020 |
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Damn the Tax Clearances, Full Speed Ahead!
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3567 Views :: Ethics, Taxes, COVID-19
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...Ige's COVID order suspends law requiring that people who want to do business with the State or municipal governments need to be current with their state and federal taxes....
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Monday, June 29, 2020 |
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Tax Like an Egyptian: The wholesale rate, the retail rate, and tax “pyramiding”
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 6:58 PM :: 4278 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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...we struggled to determine the purposes of the provisions reviewed, and in some cases, were unable to even infer the purposes. Additionally, we had no objective means to assess whether provisions were achieving their purposes....
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Saturday, June 27, 2020 |
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Hawaii 2nd Highest Tax Burden in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 6:25 AM :: 3335 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...and the highest Total Sales & Excise Tax Burden....
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Thursday, June 25, 2020 |
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Ige Defers Harbor Tariff Hike
By News Release @ 10:22 PM :: 4436 Views :: Jones Act, OHA, Small Business, Taxes
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"...This will allow local shippers and businesses, especially those on the neighbor islands, to conduct business without worrying about a rate increase at this time....”
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Sunday, June 21, 2020 |
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Pitfalls of the Subcontractor Deduction
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 4253 Views :: Small Business, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...another general excise tax exemption that the State Auditor has put under the microscope....
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Saturday, June 20, 2020 |
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Mayor Victorino returns budget to Maui Council without signature
By News Release @ 3:36 PM :: 3565 Views :: Maui County, Taxes, COVID-19
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...Victorino said his proposed property tax rates would have provided relief for hotels, resorts and short-term rentals from the economic downturn....
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Sunday, June 7, 2020 |
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Hawaii Spending Cap Too Easily Ignored by Lawmakers
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:03 PM :: 3402 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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...Start working now to adopt a meaningful spending cap....
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Sunday, June 7, 2020 |
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Is Our GET Too Soft on Sales to the Feds?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3035 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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...tinkering with the tax code to raise more money has the effect of putting the brakes on what little spin we have left on our economic engine....
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Sunday, May 24, 2020 |
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Money Laying Around?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3681 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes, COVID-19
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...the State Auditor has been busy at work trying to find options for legislators to consider for getting the state budget back on track....
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Friday, May 22, 2020 |
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26 States Will Protect Businesses from COVID-19-Related Unemployment Tax Hikes--Hawaii isn't one of them
By Tax Foundation @ 11:44 PM :: 5218 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Taxes, COVID-19
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...One way policymakers can help expedite their state’s economic recovery is by protecting employers from facing higher UI tax rates at a time when they can least afford to pay them....
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Friday, May 15, 2020 |
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The Legislature’s Dangerous Illusion
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:12 PM :: 4298 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government, Taxes, COVID-19
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...state policymakers seem to believe that the answer to the worst economic crisis in decades is to borrow and spend — and very likely raise taxes....
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Thursday, May 14, 2020 |
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COVID Borrow and Spend Plan will Burden Taxpayers for Years to Come
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:49 PM :: 3428 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes, COVID-19
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...Keli'i Akina Challenges Lawmakers' Plan to Increase Borrowing and Spending....
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Wednesday, May 13, 2020 |
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To What Extent Does Your State Rely on Individual Income Taxes?
By Tax Foundation @ 8:56 PM :: 3194 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... 22.2% of Hawaii State tax receipts come from individual income taxes ....
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020 |
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We can’t turn back the clock, and for some policies we don’t want to
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:01 PM :: 3488 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes, COVID-19
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...the state deficit for fiscal year 2021 could grow to between $710 million and $1.8 billion....
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Monday, May 11, 2020 |
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Legislature must rein in state budget
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:25 PM :: 3430 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes, COVID-19
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...Grassroot testimony outlines the problem and suggests some reforms....
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