Can this Even be Enforced. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Tom Yamachika. Recently, the Honolulu City Council has taken up the idea of imposing a different tax rate for residences that are vacant. The idea is contained in Bill 76 (2020), a bill that started off last year, was […]
Tax Appeal of Ocean Resort Villas (Community Matters)
Tom Yamachika of the Tax Foundation of Hawaii will discuss lawsuit that could cost Maui County $34 million in property tax refund. The case is plending before the state Intermediate Court of Appeals, county officials confirmed last week. The county is appealing a decision by 2nd Circuit Court Judge Peter Cahill, who in March issued […]
What is Maui County doing to Kaheawa Wind (Hawaii, State of Clean Energy)
Trying to tax wind turbines as if they were real property. Tom Yamachika, President of the Tax Foundation of Hawaii, and Ron Heller, a tax attorney, discuss the Tax Appeal by Kaheawa Wind against the County of Maui, who has attempted to treat wind turbines as real property, despite long-standing precedents to the contrary. The […]