09-06-2017, 03:55 AM
Apparently more fair if we have our own
"The bill also gives neighbor island counties the authority to raise their own GET by one-half percent if they do it by March 31. If approved, the new tax would go into effect Jan. 1, 2019.
The GET surcharge can be used only for operating or capital costs for public transportation systems, including public roadways or highways, public buses, trains, ferries, pedestrian paths or sidewalks or bicycle paths, according to the bill.
The optional GET increase for the neighbor islands was approved by legislators even as they justified the TAT increase by saying it is preferable to the Honolulu GET because it is less regressive and doesn’t hit the poor the hardest.
Joy San Buenaventura, D-Puna, voted yes on SB 4, although she stated she also had reservations. She says an Oahu GET still hits neighbor islanders because so many goods stop on Oahu first.
“Oahu, having more legislators, is going to pass a rail bill, so a more equitable rail bill was better than the ones the counties want us to pass,” she said in a letter to the editor. “The current 0.5 percent GE on ‘Oahu is more of a neighbor island tax than the TAT.”
http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/news...ail-bill-s
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"The bill also gives neighbor island counties the authority to raise their own GET by one-half percent if they do it by March 31. If approved, the new tax would go into effect Jan. 1, 2019.
The GET surcharge can be used only for operating or capital costs for public transportation systems, including public roadways or highways, public buses, trains, ferries, pedestrian paths or sidewalks or bicycle paths, according to the bill.
The optional GET increase for the neighbor islands was approved by legislators even as they justified the TAT increase by saying it is preferable to the Honolulu GET because it is less regressive and doesn’t hit the poor the hardest.
Joy San Buenaventura, D-Puna, voted yes on SB 4, although she stated she also had reservations. She says an Oahu GET still hits neighbor islanders because so many goods stop on Oahu first.
“Oahu, having more legislators, is going to pass a rail bill, so a more equitable rail bill was better than the ones the counties want us to pass,” she said in a letter to the editor. “The current 0.5 percent GE on ‘Oahu is more of a neighbor island tax than the TAT.”
http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/news...ail-bill-s
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