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Sunday, January 22, 2023 |
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Should We Lower Taxes?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1582 Views :: Taxes
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... convince me that tax cuts are not advisable ....
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Friday, January 20, 2023 |
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National coalition including Hawaii legislators urges states to enact 'wealth' taxes
By Selected News Articles @ 2:05 AM :: 1881 Views :: Taxes
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... Rep Jeanne Kapela and Hawai'i Tax Fairness Coalition protest at State Capitol in favor of new tax ....
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Thursday, January 19, 2023 |
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Slashing tax rates best way to offset higher property assessments
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:10 PM :: 1620 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Residential A properties went up 39.9% ....
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Thursday, January 19, 2023 |
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Sister Isles Among Worst Doctor Shortage in USA
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:01 PM :: 2004 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Taxes
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... a recent national study of 3,000 counties in America found the Big Island has the third-worst shortage of healthcare providers in primary care, Maui has the fifth-worst shortage of healthcare providers in America, and Kauai has the 13th worst shortage ....
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Wednesday, January 18, 2023 |
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Hawaii targets housing reform as Legislature returns
By Selected News Articles @ 3:39 AM :: 2414 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Land Use, Tax Credits, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... 156 bills are on the current docket to be introduced in the House of Representatives and Senate ....
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Sunday, January 15, 2023 |
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How to avert the looming property tax crisis
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:10 PM :: 2162 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii’s population has been declining for six straight years, and if policymakers don’t do something quickly to avert the looming increase in county property taxes, that is likely to continue ....
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Sunday, January 15, 2023 |
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More Temporary Tax Fixes Considered
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1536 Views :: Taxes
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... We need fixes. Not the temporary kind ....
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Friday, January 13, 2023 |
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GE Tax: Audit Shows Tourists Pay 14.1%--not 30%
By Andrew Walden @ 5:21 AM :: 12781 Views :: Rail, Taxes, Tourism, Cost of Living
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...The lie that tourists pay 30% of the GE Tax is front and center as Gov Green and legislators quickly walk back Green’s fake 2022 campaign promise to eliminate the GE Tax from food and medical care....
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Sunday, January 8, 2023 |
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Tax Word Find
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1485 Views :: Taxes
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... the New Year is off and running and we are quaking in our boots waiting for our Legislature to reconvene, here are some of the ideas that we have been following ....
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Thursday, January 5, 2023 |
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Time to Reform Property Taxes: High Home Values Prompt Calls for Relief
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:16 PM :: 1689 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Akina and Iwasa discuss the history of property taxes in Hawaii, how assessments are conducted and what reforms the counties should consider ....
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Wednesday, January 4, 2023 |
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Please Cut Taxes in 2023
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:18 PM :: 1743 Views :: Taxes
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... Gov. Josh Green made eliminating the general excise tax for food and medicine one of his major talking points. And on the county level, faced with concerns about skyrocketing real estate assessments, Mayor Rick Blangiardi promised to “aggressively” pursue ways to reduce that tax burden. ....
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Tuesday, January 3, 2023 |
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Taxes, housing drive people from Hawaii, policy group says
By Selected News Articles @ 8:25 PM :: 2352 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... more than 15,000 left the state between July 2021 and July 2022 ....
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022 |
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Hawaii Among Nine States Running Long-Term Structural Deficits
By Selected News Articles @ 1:48 PM :: 2150 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... revenue will continue to fall short of spending absent policy changes ....
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Monday, December 19, 2022 |
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Counties should not profit from Hawaii's housing crisis
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:00 AM :: 2324 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... assessments of all real property on Oahu went up by 12.4% compared with the previous year. And that’s just the average ....
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022 |
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Green's plan to eliminate food and medicine tax may not have a clear path
By Selected News Articles @ 8:34 PM :: 1879 Views :: Taxes
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... Lawmakers have not indicated if they back Green's plan ....
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022 |
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2023 Real Property Assessments up 12.4%
By News Release @ 2:57 AM :: 3242 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... City to Send 2023 Real Property Notice of Assessments ....
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Sunday, December 11, 2022 |
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New Administration’s Tax Priorities
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2374 Views :: Taxes
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... Green's top priorities for his first 100 days in office ....
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Monday, December 5, 2022 |
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Ige Announces Completion of over 600,000 Refunds to Hawaii Taxpayers
By News Release @ 3:32 PM :: 2014 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits, Taxes
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... A total of 606,674 Act 115 refunds were issued, totaling $307.9 million. That includes 288,590 direct deposits and 318,084 paper checks ....
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Sunday, November 27, 2022 |
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Economic Freedom: Hawaii Ranks 48th
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:30 PM :: 1927 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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“...our residents will continue to suffer and flee the state....”
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Sunday, November 27, 2022 |
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No, Boosting the Affordable Housing Fund Isn’t the Answer
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2189 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Taxes
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"... it is essentially a budgeting gimmick ...."
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Sunday, November 20, 2022 |
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It's a perfect time to cut taxes
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:13 AM :: 1947 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... many Hawaii families are taking a hard look at their finances and calculating how inflation and recession will affect their holiday plans, if not their entire economic futures ....
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Monday, November 14, 2022 |
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UHERO: Visitors-only fee may be illegal
By UHERO @ 6:44 PM :: 2380 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes, Tourism
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... Rethinking HTA’s “Regenerative Tourism Fee” ....
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Thursday, November 10, 2022 |
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Why is there a doctor shortage in Hawaii?
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:55 PM :: 3256 Views :: Health Care, Small Business, Taxes
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... The state is short more than 1,000 doctors, which means some patients cannot get care, and the ones who do have to wait a long time. ...
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Sunday, November 6, 2022 |
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The Empty Homes Tax
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2620 Views :: Development, Taxes, Tourism
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... The idea seems to be gaining steam now since our federal court has struck down Honolulu’s recent ordinance clamping down on transient vacation rentals ....
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Saturday, November 5, 2022 |
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Unemployment Trust Fund Grows to $205M
By News Release @ 3:58 AM :: 2570 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Small Business, Taxes
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... Hawaii’s unemployment insurance (UI) program is funded exclusively by employers via state and federal payroll taxes on wages ....
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Tuesday, October 25, 2022 |
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2023 State Business Tax Climate Index--Hawaii Ranks 43rd
By Tax Foundation @ 10:46 PM :: 1792 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... The Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index enables business leaders, government policymakers, and taxpayers to gauge how their states’ tax systems compare ....
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Tuesday, October 25, 2022 |
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GE Tax Takes $200M Bite out of Health Care
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:02 PM :: 1963 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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“If we exempted medical care from the general excise tax it would save doctors and patients more than $200 million [a year]. And that would help keep doctors in our state, rather than having to flee the state to earn money elsewhere...."
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Sunday, October 23, 2022 |
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Yes, People Move Because of Taxes
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2184 Views :: Taxes
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... we gained a few high-income individuals but lost more of those folks scraping to make ends meet ....
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Saturday, October 22, 2022 |
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Front Page News: Petition to End GE Tax on Medical Care
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:51 PM :: 2051 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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... the petition, which can be viewed here, calls on lawmakers to exempt medical services from the state’s general excise tax ....
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Saturday, October 15, 2022 |
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Ige Scores 'C' on Fiscal Policy Report Card
By Cato Foundation @ 4:50 AM :: 2060 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... The report examines the tax and spending choices made by the governors and discusses recent policy trends ....
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Tuesday, October 11, 2022 |
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How Do Taxes Affect Interstate Migration?
By Tax Foundation @ 7:37 PM :: 2848 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... four of the top five states Hawaii residents moved to—Washington, Texas, Nevada, and Florida—forgo individual income taxes on wage income ....
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Saturday, October 8, 2022 |
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Putting a human face on Hawaii's doctor shortage
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:31 PM :: 3565 Views :: Health Care, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... they told me, ‘Send this person to Costco’ ....
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Tuesday, September 27, 2022 |
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Getting by with a little help from our friends
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:43 AM :: 1828 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Grassroot Institute of Hawaii is working with experts around the country to create a better Hawaii ....
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Sunday, September 25, 2022 |
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Road Usage Charge Versus Carbon Tax
By Tom Yamachika @ 8:16 PM :: 2033 Views :: Environment, Taxes
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... Hawaii Department of Transportation has been studying implementation of a Road Usage Charge ....
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Sunday, September 18, 2022 |
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Rolling With a Road Usage Charge
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2010 Views :: Taxes
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... support grew when rental cars are charged a higher rate than residents ....
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022 |
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Hawaii Taxpayer Refunds Go Out Next Week
By News Release @ 2:13 AM :: 1922 Views :: Taxes
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... about 600,000 Hawaiʻi taxpayers are scheduled to receive approximately $294 million in tax refunds ....
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Monday, September 5, 2022 |
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Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:40 PM :: 2116 Views :: Jones Act, Taxes
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... Will Hawaii’s candidates on the 2022 campaign trail follow through on their promises? ....
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Sunday, September 4, 2022 |
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No. 1 In the World – In Tourist Taxes
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 3949 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes, Tourism
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... Honolulu is 75% higher in taxes than the second most tourist-taxed city in the world ....
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Thursday, September 1, 2022 |
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Should sacrifices go just one way?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:15 PM :: 1712 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... Does the state have a responsibility to “go without,” if that would be better for the people? ....
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Monday, August 29, 2022 |
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Better Budgeting for a Better Economy
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:46 AM :: 1727 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... lawmakers are allowed to waive the state’s spending cap by a two-thirds vote, which they routinely do ....
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Monday, August 22, 2022 |
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To Tax or Not to Tax Sale of Food and Medicine
By UHERO @ 4:19 AM :: 2031 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... taxes on the purchases of those expenditures disproportionately hurt low income households ....
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Sunday, August 21, 2022 |
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Can We Sack the GET?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1774 Views :: Taxes
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... Why don’t we just get rid of it? ....
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Sunday, August 14, 2022 |
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A GE Tax Exemption for Food
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:39 AM :: 2131 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... The three Democratic candidates for governor all support it ....
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Saturday, August 13, 2022 |
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Wednesday, August 10, 2022 |
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Monday, August 8, 2022 |
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How to Ensure Better Budgeting for a Better Economy
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:02 PM :: 1732 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... Tired of runaway government taxes, spending and debt? Learn what we can do about it from budget expert Daniel Mitchell ....
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Sunday, August 7, 2022 |
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Addressing the Tax Crisis in Health Care
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1954 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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... According to the Hawaii Physician Shortage Crisis Task Force, taxes are one of the reason for the shortage ....
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Sunday, July 17, 2022 |
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It’s Tourism, Mooooo
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2091 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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... folks who seem to rank high on the milking list: tourists....
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022 |
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State Tax Receipts up 34.8%
By News Release @ 4:47 AM :: 2393 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... FY2022 corporate income tax collections up 60.1% from the previous year, IIT collections up 22.3% from the previous year, and General Fund tax collections up 34.8% ....
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