Bill Text: HI HCR7 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Kauai County Package; Transient Accommodations Tax
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-22 - Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Hanohano, McKelvey, Takumi, Woodson excused (4). [HCR7 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-HCR7-Introduced.html
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.C.R. NO. |
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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HOUSE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
URGING THE GOVERNOR AND THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO PRESERVE THE COUNTIES' SHARE OF THE TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX.
WHEREAS, the transient accommodations tax is a tax levied by the State on the proceeds derived from furnishing transient accommodations; and
WHEREAS, during the Regular Session of 1990, the Legislature enacted Act 185 which gave the counties a share of the transient accommodations tax; and
WHEREAS, according to Conference Committee Report 207, the purpose of Act 185 was to provide a more equitable method of sharing state revenues with the counties, rather than continuing with the system existing at the time, whereby the counties requested financial assistance through grants-in-aid from the State; and
WHEREAS, the county share of the tax also provides more stability to county finances and enables improved budgeting and planning; and
WHEREAS, currently, 44.8 per cent of the total transient accommodations tax collected by the State is distributed to the counties; of this amount, the revenue is allocated as follows:
Kauai County - 14.5%
Hawaii County - 18.6%
City and County of Honolulu - 44.1%
Maui County - 22.8%
100.0%
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WHEREAS, the transient accommodations tax revenues account for a significant portion of the counties' general fund budgets; and
WHEREAS, maintaining the current allocation of the transient accommodations tax would allow the counties to continue providing essential government services to visitors and residents; and
WHEREAS, losing the current allocation of the transient accommodations tax would require counties to significantly raise property taxes; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-seventh Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2013, the Senate concurring, that the Governor and the Legislature are urged to preserve the counties' share of the transient accommodations tax; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor, the President of the Hawaii State Association of Counties, and the Mayors of the Counties of Kauai, Hawaii, Honolulu, and Maui.
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Kauai County Package; Transient Accommodations Tax