From The Garden Island:

A proposal to raise the minimum real property tax by 500 percent on Kaua‘i died in the hands of the Kaua‘i County Council’s Finance and Economic Development Committee Wednesday.

The bill would have raised the minimum real property tax paid on Kaua‘i to $150 from $25. But after a lengthy discussion, the committee opted to receive the bill, which means it was shelved without action, effectively killing it.

Though the proposal will likely resurface with a different structure next month, whatever comes out of it may not affect taxpayers in the next fiscal year, starting July 1, because there is limited time to work on it, according to Committee Chair Tim Bynum. Read the full story.

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