The Garden Island: State tax system takes toll on low-income
media mention“But there are some costs of living in the Aloha State that don’t always seem fair, and one of those costs is the focus of a new study released Wednesday by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice.
It found that Hawaii’s lowest income residents pay almost two times more in taxes as a percent of their income compared to the state’s wealthiest residents. This aggressive taxation of low-income residents leaves Hawaii with the country’s second heaviest tax burden on people in poverty.”