After helping pass the biggest state income tax cut in history, House Finance Chair Kyle Yamashita has told us that the tax cut was just the first piece in a larger grand plan. He believes that the real property taxes are far too low. “He contends the ultra-low property taxes encourage...
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii lawmakers are considering a bill that would standardize the state’s pandemic travel restrictions across the islands, a departure from the current system that allows individual counties to create their own modified safety measures. Members of the House Finance Committee heard ...
The Department of Finance, Real Property Assessment Division, would like to remind homeowners that due to a change in requirements, those residents who have qualified for exemptions in the past must now file a state resident income tax form or risk being disqualified ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving as a single mother of two to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahaina in August and reduced Chadwick's home to w...
Those changes, however, did not cause the counties headaches. The transfer of real property tax was a change that the counties wanted and were ready for. For the PSC tax, most counties seemed to respond by foisting the new responsibility on their finance department staff, which wasn’t too ...
Matsunaga was first elected to the House in 1962 and served six terms. He was elected to the Senate in 1976 and reelected in 1982 and 1988. At his death he was the second-ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee and chairman of its subcommittee on taxation and debt management. ...
In addition to his military service, Djou is the child of immigrants (from China and Thailand), a Punahou graduate who holds political science and economics degrees from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania, and a law degree from the University of Souther...
The bill includes hikes to the capital gains tax, corporate tax and taxes on high-end real estate sales. The Senate Ways and Means Committee unanimously passed the measure last week. The bill's prospects in the House were uncertain. House lawmakers never scheduled hearings for similar legisla...
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Honolulu City Councilmember Tommy Waters, who represents East Honolulu and is the chairman of the City Council Public Safety Committee, said he was heartbroken by the attack. “I am disturbed by the initial reports that the gunman was a troubled individual who terrorized the Diamond Head neighbo...