The Honolulu City Council has advanced legislation meant to offer financial relief to island property owners burdened with ...

This breakdown of property taxes by state in the U.S. includes the states with the highest property tax, states with the ...

Property taxes in Hawaii are collected by the counties (City and County of Honolulu, Maui County, Hawaii County, and Kauai County) and are primarily used to fund county services such as police and ...

The Hawaii County Council voted 8-1 Wednesday to approve a bill that amends the county’s real property tax credit system, ...

For Maui County, it’s $5.54 per $1,000, $6.05 per $1,000 for Kauai and $11.10 for the County of Hawaii, Mr. Kamikawa explained. More: Click to Read Tax Experts Share Answers and Advice for ...

And according to the Tax Foundation, an independent nonprofit tax policy research organization, the effective property tax rate in Hawaii was 0.32% in 2021, the lowest among the 50 states.

A 2015 analysis by the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based tax policy thinktank, concluded that Hawaii's average effective property tax rate on owner-occupied housing was .28 percent, the ...

Nationwide, the effective property tax rate—the total taxes paid as a percentage of the aggregate value of owner-occupied housing—has steadily declined over the past decade.

Taxpayers in North Kona’s District 8 shoulder more of the property tax burden than County Council Districts 1-6 combined, as West Hawaii’s property values and concomitant taxes continue to ...

With state and county tax burdens combined, Hawaii ranked fifth highest at $7,319 per capita as of 2018. The state ranked first was New York, with combined state and county taxes of $9,822.

The bill comes a little more than a year after the Hawaii Supreme Court struck down a similar ballot question less than three weeks before the 2018 general election.