Unsellable Property Assessments

[leilanidude]

Food sales in Hawaii are not taxed if one pays via EBT, so the "poor" are not paying taxes on food.

[kalakoa]

Food sales in Hawaii are not taxed if one pays via EBT

Speaking from experience: it is possible to both qualify for the GET credit and be ineligible for EBT, at the same time.

[Mimosa]

kalakoa - There is absolutely NO common sense in any level of Govt.

[Tink]

Quite right Mimosa! I've always claimed the first training class is "common sense lobotomy 101" seems they always look over the simple, thinking simple means stupid. Part of the fact is also they use the term "other people's money", as in taxes gathered and tend to be blinded by all that money waiting to be spent on frivolous things to please their re-election fund buddies, just as a child would with an inheritance. Sad.

Community begins with Aloha

[pbmaise]

Mimosa
During research for my posts on the lava flow I ran across a poll of residents living on Mauna Loa. A full 75% did not know it had erupted within the past 30 years.
Now that doesn't make sense to me. How can a population expect understandable government choices when it comes from the PEOPLE and the PEOPLE know trivial matters more than essential one? This reminds me I heard the number one bill passed in Congress is to rename post offices and airports.

Land taxes are greatly affected by factors you demonstrate. Age and disability are just two.
A few years back less than 400 properties of 30,000+ in Puna were officially dedicated agricultural.

Then there are properties dedicated conservation. Big properties with very low taxes tend to all be dedicated conservation or agricultural and long term that seems good to me.

[gogould]

I was startled to see my property assessed value drop in a big way this year in HawaiianAcres. I checked the properties around me they all stayed the same. Then at the same time I started getting notices from realtors happy to help me sell. I will make this statement here and now for all to see.
I have arranged for my land to be inherited by my family and I have zero intention of it ever passing from ownership within my family.

[ironyak]

http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/loc...considered

Comments
Mike Garbarino
I recommend that property owners in lower Puna consult a good appraiser - my company or my competition - and be prepared to appeal their upcoming annual property tax assessment. Our recent appraisals of specific properties in lower Puna - including NOT in the path of the current active lava flow - indicate that pretty much all property in the area is fast becoming "un-sellable", and as such with zero market value. This could change with government action & I am making recommendations to our public officials, but so long as our government continues its current inaction, the effect on all of our property values in the area is quite devastating.

[JohnDW]

ironyak,

Yes, we read this editorial some time ago, although the comment conversation hadn't yet developed. NextEra's observable movements should be telling. Back in rural New Mexico I watched how Phelps Dodge's real estate arm operates. Do all extractive industries work from the same playbook I wonder? Might we expect a municipal bond based on GT exploration etc?

Un Mojado Sin Licencia

[nanasohana]

Ironyak, what about propertys just north of this current flow? With breakouts that could go north, it seems those propertys just north for a mile or so could see the same fate of unmarketable.

[Mtviewdude]

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Originally posted by Tink

Quite right Mimosa! I've always claimed the first training class is "common sense lobotomy 101" seems they always look over the simple, thinking simple means stupid. Part of the fact is also they use the term "other people's money", as in taxes gathered and tend to be blinded by all that money waiting to be spent on frivolous things to please their re-election fund buddies, just as a child would with an inheritance. Sad.

Community begins with Aloha

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I just love this, we only have ourselves to blame.

We don't vote in politicians based on their intelligence or common sense and complain when there is none in government. We don't hold politicians accountable and wonder why they are corrupt.

If you really think about it, Hawaii government is pretty much a spot on representation of current Hawaii culture. A lot of NIMBY, a lot of "if you know the right person".