{"id":5598,"date":"2025-09-03T11:14:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T01:38:48","slug":"hawaii-sued-over-14-tourist-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2025\/09\/03\/hawaii-sued-over-14-tourist-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii sued over 14% tourist tax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hawaii established an up to 14% tax on tourists to Hawaii: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/travel\/high-tourist-tax-hawaii-designed-raise-funds-climate-change-challenged-lawsuit\">Cruise industry sues Hawaii over new its 11% &#8216;green fee&#8217; tourist tax increase | Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an 11% state tax but counties add an additional 3%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khon2.com\/local-news\/visiting-paradise-comes-with-a-price-8-things-to-know-about-hawai%ca%bbis-new-tax\/\">Visiting paradise comes with a price: 8 things to know about Hawai\u02bbi&#8217;s new tax<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And not a surprise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/hawaii\/article\/hawaii-businesses-struggle-visitors-decline-20240245.php\">Hawaii businesses are struggling as tourists decline<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/hawaii\/article\/hawaii-travel-visitors-summer-decline-20383620.php\">Hawaii tourism is &#8216;significantly down,&#8217; and experts are worried<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelandtourworld.com\/news\/article\/hawaiis-visitor-arrivals-and-spending-decline-in-july-2025-amid-challenges-in-the-tourism-sector\/\">Hawaii\u2019s Visitor Arrivals and Spending Decline in July 2025 Amid Challenges in the Tourism Sector<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hawaii, a state whose economy is dependent on tourism, has become too expensive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Statewide,&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/hawaii\/article\/hawaii-hotels-increasing-prices-17843305.php\">hotel rates<\/a>&nbsp;have&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiitourismauthority.org\/media\/13972\/hta-december-2024-hawaii-hotels-performance-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">risen 29%<\/a>, when comparing 2024 with 2019, to an average daily room rate of $365 per visitor. The prices of&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/hawaii\/article\/hawaii-vacation-rental-demand-drops-20021804.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vacation rentals are also rising<\/a>, resulting in a steep drop in demand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The tax funds what for now is basically a climate slush fund (it&#8217;s a slush fund when they don&#8217;t yet know what they would spend it on or whether such spending would have any impact on climate)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11% state tax, up to 3% county tax, for a combined 14% tax on visitors staying in &#8220;transient&#8221; accommodations for less than six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-regulatory","category-other","category-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}