STAND. COM. REP. NO. 160-14
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2014
RE: H.B. No. 1671
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Tourism, to which was referred H.B. No. 1671 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion.
Your Committee understands that much of the cost associated with tourism are carried by the counties. This includes the ever-increasing costs of providing county services to these visitors. Your Committee is also aware that the counties have faced financial challenges in providing these county services since the cap on transient accommodations tax revenues distributed to the counties was put in place in 2011.
Accordingly, your Committee respectfully requests the Committee on Finance to thoroughly examine the transient accommodations tax allocations to the counties and evaluate the impact of the current transient accommodations tax rates on the gross rental or gross rental proceeds derived from furnishing transient accommodations.
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. 1671, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1671, H.D. 1, and be referred to the 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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