Bill Text: HI HCR154 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requesting the City and County of Honolulu to provide a property tax reduction, or tax credit, or some other method of compensation to county real property taxpayers who pay for their own trash collection services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-04-14 - Referred to PSM, WAM. [HCR154 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2015-HCR154-Introduced.html
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.C.R. NO. |
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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HOUSE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
REQUESTING THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO PROVIDE REAL PROPERTY TAXPAYERS WHO PAY FOR THEIR OWN TRASH COLLECTION SERVICES A PROPERTY TAX REDUCTION, TAX CREDIT, OR alternate METHOD OF COMPENSATION or reimbursement.
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 3, Article VIII of the Hawaii State Constitution, the "taxation of real property shall be exercised exclusively by the counties"; and
WHEREAS, the City and County of Honolulu provides trash collection that is paid through the assessment of the real property tax on residents of the county; and
WHEREAS, condominium owners and certain other residents in the City and County of Honolulu must provide and pay for their own trash collection services despite paying the county real property tax; and
WHEREAS, these taxpayers are subjected to unfair treatment and should not be assessed for the county trash collection services they do not receive; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of
the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2015,
the Senate concurring, that the City and County of Honolulu is requested to
consider providing a property tax reduction, tax credit, or alternate method of
compensation or reimbursement to county real property taxpayers who pay for
their own trash collection services; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution
be transmitted to the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu and the
Chairperson of the Honolulu City Council.
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OFFERED BY: |
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Requesting the City and County of Honolulu to provide a property tax reduction, or tax credit, or some other method of compensation to county real property taxpayers who pay for their own trash collection services.
