Four days ahead of a planned special session, state House and Senate leaders outlined their proposal to save Honolulu’s struggling rail project. The proposal calls for increasing Hawaii’s hotel room tax, or transient accommodations tax, by 1 percentage point through 2030. The increase, which would raise the tax from 9.25 percent to 10.25 percent, will generate an […]
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