HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0675.176 2022-2024From: Sandra McGrath
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2024 12:20 PM
To: Council Testimony
Subject: oppose Dills 121,122,123
We, as a community, need to support our local people and not take away their ability to use their
property as they see fit,
If transient renters are not allowed to come to vacation homes ... they will not come and the
community will suffer.
We only have "tourism" to support our community and many of them will not come if they need to go
to an expensive hotel.
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From:
Sandra McGrath
Sent:
Sunday, June 30, 2024 12:29 PM
To:
Council Testimony
Subject;
Bills 121, 122, 123
If all short-term rental units throughout the state are phased out by the counties, the
following annual economic and fiscal losses will occur:
• $803.3 to $955,9 million in taxes to the State and Counties, that includes:
• $554 million in State TAT and GET
• $121 million in all counties GET and TAT surcharges
• $128,3 to $280,9 in Maul RPT
« $11.3 billion in economic output
• 66,000 jobs
"Roughly a third of all visitors to Hawaii use short-term rentals,