This week, we continue our coverage of significant Hawaii tax bills that have cleared our Hawaii legislative session and are on their way to Gov. Green’s desk. House Bill 2329, which conforms our state tax law to provisions of the … Read More
In our Hawaii legislative session, conference committee work is now done and bills are being readied for final floor votes and trips to the Governor’s office. Some bills look pretty much the same as they did when they began the … Read More
One of the most important and consequential bills considered in any legislative session, including this one, is the budget bill. This year’s budget bill is House Bill 1800. Reading the bill, however, is not for the faint of heart. There … Read More
We are at the point in our legislative session where House-Senate conference committees are hashing out the final versions of bills that, if passed by both chambers, would be sent up to the Governor’s office for possible signing into law. … Read More
A couple of weeks ago, we spotlighted a bill, House Bill 2429, that essentially would have forced taxpayers to file a second, publicly available, tax return upon pain of losing the benefit of most income tax credits and all general … Read More
Hawaii conveyance tax is imposed any time real estate in Hawaii is bought, sold, or leased for a term of five years or more. Goings-on at our legislature give us some conveyance tax fright. The tax dates back to 1967, … Read More
In our current legislative session, there had been a couple of bills that would have created brand new taxes for us. One of them, House Bill 2604, would have slapped a new $1 per ticket tax on concert tickets on … Read More
Tax season is here. Most of us dread the prospect of filling out and filing our tax returns. We have to bare our souls to the government every year at about this time, telling them intimate details of what we … Read More
We’ve just passed the halfway point in our legislative session, where bills in the House need to go to the Senate for consideration, and vice versa. Any bill that hasn’t crossed over is dead for this session, although it is … Read More
We have written earlier this year about the Administration’s bill to “pause” (actually, stop) the planned tax cuts that were to happen in years 2027 and beyond. The House and Senate money committees heard that bill independently. Both committees opted … Read More