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The deadline for the Governor to announce which bills she is going to veto is June 27.

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April 30, 2005

Conference Committee Passes GE Tax Bill

A Senate-House conference committee passed the General Excise Tax Increase bill (HB 1309 CD1) yesterday. This version of the bill will increase the General Excise Tax by 12.5%. Here is the vote count for the bill:

4/29/2005
The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments.The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Souki, Takamine, Karamatsu, Lee, Yamane; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Fox.

Note: Rep. Fox would have voted "yes" for this bill as he had in earlier drafts.

4/29/2005
The Conference committee recommends that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes of the Senate Conference Managers were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Taniguchi, Inouye, Espero; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Ige.

Note: Sen. Ige would have voted "yes" for this bill as he had in earlier drafts.

4/29/2005
Reported from Conference Committee (Conf Com. Rep. No. 186) as amended in (CD 1).

4/29/2005
Reported from Conf. Com. as amended CD 1 (Conf. Com. Rep. No. 186).

4/29/2005
48 Hrs. Notice (as amended CD 1) 05-03-05.

The bill will go to a full floor vote in both houses of the legislature on Tuesday, May 3.

How can you stop this tax from happening? Call all of your legislators. Here is a link to all of the Senate and House member contact information. Call, fax or email them today! sens@capitol.hawaii.gov |reps@capitol.hawaii.gov.

Also, call Governor Lingle and urge her to not sign this bill. The Governor has vowed to sign a tax hike bill should the bill such as this one gives authorization to the counties to raise the tax.

Is Hawaii open for business? Not if this tax kicks in. The General Excise Tax increase will hurt business, hurt consumers, the elderly, the poor, tourists and everyone else who makes any financial transaction in the State of Hawaii. State or County GE tax, the money is the same, coming out from the same pockets and hurting the same people. NO NEW TAXES!

No New Tax Rally Gets Rowdy
By Malia Zimmerman, HawaiiReporter.com, April 27, 2005.

The nearly 300 people who attended the "No New Tax Rally" held at the Hawaii State Capitol yesterday from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. got so rowdy when chanting "no new taxes," that Capitol security told the crowd to pipe down or else.

Security's complaint -- the people working in the Capitol (probably finding ways to raise taxes) could not work because the chanting against the tax increase was so loud.

Part of the ruckus, besides protestors shouting their outrage over the legislative proposal to hike Hawaii's already highest overall tax burden in the nation by increasing the state's General Excise Tax by 25 percent, were bamboo stick players keeping rhythm with the crowd by banging on the concrete floor.

READ THE COMPLETE TEXT AT HAWAIIREPORTER.COM

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Take Action Today -- Write, Fax, Email or Call Your Legislator

The Hawaii Association of Realtors website has a neat page where you can automatically fax your State Senator and Representative using pre-made text to voice your opinion against and urge these legislators to VOTE NO on increasing the General Excise Tax. Check it out at this weblink.

Don't let the legislature continue to rob you of your personal funds. The time to stop this tax increase is now!

NO NEW TAXES.

LINKS TO ARTICLES ON TAXATION 2005
The following links take you to articles about tax increases and tax abuses.

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