July 13, 2026
Nick Johnson, senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, another Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit and nonpartisan tax policy organization, told the Hawaii Tax Review Commission during a June 16 meeting that the state’s personal income tax is “quite progressive” given its graduated rate structure and low-income tax credits.
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