I don’t care if it costs penny. I won’t be visiting. I can always go to Florida.
GIBS-ME-‘MO of that OTHER-PEOPLE’S-MONEY!
Unconstitutional.
Green/tax SCAM avoid Hawaii.
Won’t cost me anythinh, there’s other tropical lands just as nice as Hawaii used to be.
They have to pay for all that welfare somehow.
Well, I lived on Oahu in the mid-late 50’s and from all the pictures from recent shots, the beaches look the same to me as they did back then. Just sayin’. (Military brat). 😊👍
“The law now increases the the state’s Transient Accommodation Tax (TAT) by .75%, to 11%”
That is a huge increase, it looks like I will be selling my Kauai Timeshare (inherited) that MAYBE I make $200 a year after maintenance fees for selling off my week. If this is accurate my timeshare tax due at check in will go from $80 a week to over $800, that has to be wrong???
That is a completely self destructive increase. They are idiots over there. I give evidentiary example No. 1 Senator Mazie Hirono.
Won’t cost me anything.
“a “climate impact fee” which aims to generate funds for mitigating future environmental challenges”
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And generating funds for politicians.
States that ship goods to Hawaii should start adding some taxes of their own.
“Unlike other state programs, the money generated won’t go into a dedicated special fund. Instead, the legislature will reevaluate priorities each year to decide where the money should go based on the greatest environmental need.”
Taxes are fungible. This is just another tax; might as well say it is going into general revenue because, before when its all said and done, it is.
Me, none.
The tax revenues will go into a fund to line Josh and friend’s pockets.
Hawaii can kiss their tourist industry good bye. Tourist are money but they won’t pay that kind of tax.
That’s doubling the hit on tourists there in many instances.
HI already has a “kama’aina discount” where residents receive a discount (usually 10%) on events, restaurants, businesses, hotels, etc. You just need to show your HI ID.
Other states should start charging Hawaii residents an 11% surcharge when
they come to other states and DC.
Contrary to media gaslighting, this is also an additional tax on already overtaxed locals.
I wonder if that tax will be passed on to the passengers of the Pride of American, the U.S. built in American and crewed mostly by US citizens. Just what we need, make our only ocean going cruise ship even more expensive.
Maritime Unions where are you?
Want to charge foreigners (i.e., Non-Americans) fine. But American tax dollars go into Hawaii, so American’s already paid.