STAND. COM. REP. NO. 218-16
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2016
RE: H.B. No. 1584
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Tourism, to which was referred H.B. No. 1584 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Authorizing the counties to impose a monthly transient accommodations tax surcharge on the fair market rental value of resort time share vacation units;
(2) Requiring the counties to adopt the same transient accommodations tax surcharge rate as the State's transient accommodations tax rate as follows: 9.25 per cent for transient accommodations and 8.25 per cent for resort time share vacation units in 2016 and increasing to 9.25 per cent starting January 1, 2017;
(3) Requiring the counties to prescribe the necessary forms to report and remit the surcharge to the counties; and
(4) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2120, to promote further discussion.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1584, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1584, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism,
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____________________________ TOM BROWER, Chair |
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