Taxes

...Hawaii Ranks 11th overall: 4th on Income, 20th on GDP, and 44th on Federal Taxes....

The federal government adds 18.40 cents per gallon in each state....

"Instead of addressing the soaring cost of living facing Hawaii's middle-class families, Senator Ige and Governor Abercrombie piled on even more taxes...."

...the state is “headed into a situation where there is anticipated fiscal year imbalance” because spending is outpacing revenue....

...Ige tried to raise the most burdensome tax for families and small businesses in Hawaii another 25 percent....

...Senator Ige's Record Of Supporting Tax Hikes Includes An Excise Tax Increase And A Tax On Pensions....

...the study ranked Hawaii’s tax system 49th out of 50, in the order of fairness....

...September 30, 2014 deadline for three real property programs is approaching and urge those wishing to participate to submit the required documentation....

David Ige was one of the top-ranking legislators in charge of implementing the policies that have seen Hawai‘i burdened with bigger bills and higher taxes....

...In 2011, Senator Ige Cosponsored A Bill Which Established A Tax On Sweetened Beverages In Hawaii....

The Hawaii GE Tax base is far wider than the national median, where the sales tax base applies to 34.46 percent of personal income....

A New Study Shows Hawaii Has The Second Worst Tax System Overall And The Third Most Overtaxed Middle Class....

"Which is precisely why the RGA ad, and others that may follow, might actually persuade voters to go Aiona’s way."

...New Infographic Spells Out The Results Of The Last Four Years For Hawaii....

...if the State continues to spend at the current rate Hawaii will use up its general fund carryover balances as early as 2016....

...Abercrombie And Senator David Ige Have Passed Over $833 Million Of Tax Increases Since 2011....

The middle class is most overtaxed in Arkansas, New York and Hawaii....

...poor timing can lead to tremendously bad results in Hawaii's tax system....

The government was forced to raise the tax after they noticed that bag use was increasing as consumers began absorbing the cost of the bags....

...State governments, including ours, are increasingly using targeted benefits, such as tax credits and exemptions, to attract companies....

A report by a fiscal watchdog deems Hawaii one of the worst “sinkhole” states for its growing debt burden to taxpayers....

Ige, Chun-Oakland, and Fukunaga were the three bitter-enders holding out for the full $791M in GE Tax hikes....

Even weeks after angry kupuna and union members began crowding committee hearings to protest, Takai voted 'aye' for the pension tax bill HB1092 HD1....

...find your state representative and determine how he or she voted every time the pension tax was up...

What qualifies as real estate for REIT purposes is an issue that recently has been in the news....

Mr. and Mrs. Stocker waited until the day their taxes were due....

Hawaii is making progress when it comes to passing policies to prevent and reduce suffering and death from cancer, according to a new report by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network....

Hawaii remains among the worst 5 states for taxpayer burden of debt and continues to use overly optimistic accounting....

Airline passengers are considered an easy group to tax....

“We’ve taken literally hundreds of inquiries over the past three weeks and have explained to each taxpayer in great detail why their taxes may have increased....”

...Department of Taxation employees were able to answer the phone only 59% of the time in 2013....

...2014 April General Excise Tax (GET) collections are still down compared to the same month last year, although slightly improved on March 2014....

...Our Hawaii Supreme Court said that it reaches "virtually every economic activity imaginable"....

...The new fiscal year 2014 forecast is minus 1.8 percent, down from a negative 0.4 percent in May, a difference of about $72 million....

...“inversion” occurs when a U.S. company merges with a foreign company and moves its headquarters to the foreign country....

...Can anything be in worse condition than unfunded government pensions? Unfortunately, yes – and it’s called OPEB....

The Senate version, called the Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act, is awaiting consideration from the Senate Finance Committee....

Hawaii's mounting state debt now represents $41,300 per taxpayer, the second highest in the country....

...Hawaii's power prices are among the highest in the nation as well. Not surprisingly, one of the big reasons for this is taxation....

By the end of the 1930s, 22 states had implemented a sales tax....

...the administration “performing a $4 billion magic trick”....

...General Excise Tax collections for the first quarter of 2014 are down 4.6% in comparison to last year....

...in 1978 when Hawaii adopted its present system of conforming to the federal Internal Revenue Code, inflation adjustments were left off the table....

What it would take to help the state create a governing and regulatory climate that would bring in more revenue without raising taxes....

Hawaii TEA party leaders are outraged over the news the IRS has lost emails of its former director, Lois Lerner, during a critical time when the agency admitted to targeting conservative groups....

He had been told “they’re there” by no less than IRS Commissioner John Koskinen himself....