That’s the question we try to ask and answer with our story today, titled Honolulu Property Tax Overhaul Dead On Arrival?

Here’s a snippet:

The Honolulu City Council will start debating an overhaul to the property tax system next month, even though the idea is already been dismissed as a dead-on-arrival election-year tax increase.

Council Budget Chair Ann Kobayashi told Civil Beat Monday she plans to hold hearings starting in late January to discuss “the property tax system as a whole.”

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