Posted on 05/31/2025 1:30:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Beginning next year, visitors to Hawaii will be subject to a “climate impact fee” which aims to generate funds for mitigating future environmental challenges the state expects to face.
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green signed Act 96 into law Tuesday, effectively approving a tax — also known as the “Green Fee”
The law now increases the the state’s Transient Accommodation Tax (TAT) by .75%, to 11%. This fee will be applied to costs for tourism-related activities including hotels and cruise ships that dock in Hawaii.
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.
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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). 😊👍
When I hear “unconstitutional” and “Hawaii” I think of this:
Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U.S. 229 (1984), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that a state could use eminent domain to take land that was overwhelmingly concentrated in the hands of private landowners and redistribute it to the wider population of private residents.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Housing_Authority_v._Midkiff
Plenty of other jurisdictions have similar taxes. Is there something in the Hawaii Constitution?
“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.
I’m glad I went in 2011. It’s a breathtakingly beautiful place with a lot to do. Hopefully most have gone and won’t have to pay this ridiculous tax.
Won’t cost me anything.
“I don’t care if it costs penny. I won’t be visiting. I can always go to Florida.”
Florida law permits counties to add a bed tax ranging from two to six percent. It is optional and some counties doesn’t levy the tax at all.
This is considerably less than Hawaii’s 11 percent. And no dangerous volcanoes in Florida.
Um read it again increase of .75% That’s less than one percent increase
“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.
Correct. Why go somewhere I’m not welcome? For years —like almost 20— I enjoyed an annual week on the island of Maui. Spent alot of money there, and explored the island fairly completely. I abided by the law, wasn’t a yayhoo tourist, and was polite to everyone. With the torching of Lahaina and the subsequent anti-tourist vibe I’ve heard reported, this is the final nail in the coffin— I won’t ever be going back.
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