Counties should have control of property tax

Counties should have control of property tax

When the practice of land taxation was first introduced in Hawaii during its monarchical period, a centralized system of assessment and collection was used. Today, Hawaii still has the distinction of being the only state in the nation with a completely centralized real property tax administration. This has served us well in the past, but in view of the ongoing debate by the Constitutional Convention over state vs. county property tax authority, a re-examination of our present system is in order.

JACK K. SUWA

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