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- @CODE: HI
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- │ GENERAL EXCISE TAX (HAWAII) │
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- Unlike most states, Hawaii does not have a general sales
- tax, as such. Instead, it has a General Excise (or gross
- income) Tax (GET), which is one of the most pervasive taxes
- levied by any state government in the U.S. It is much like
- a general sales tax, except that it is in many ways much
- broader than the typical sales tax, in that it applies to
- all types of services, real estate rentals, and other types
- of income as well as to the sale of tangible goods.
-
- The GET is an excise tax for the privilege of engaging in
- business within the state of Hawaii, and is based on the
- value of products, gross proceeds of sales, or gross in-
- come. As such, it is applicable to virtually all kinds
- of business income, but there are a number of exemptions,
- including wages and salaries.
-
- The tax, which applies at a uniform rate throughout the
- state, is generally imposed at a rate of 4%. As of 1993,
- counties may be permitted to impose an additional 0.5% tax
- for mass transit funding, on transactions subject to the 4%
- state wide general excise (or use) tax.
-
- The GET tax rate is reduced to 0.5% on many transactions,
- such as wholesale transactions made for resale (if the sel-
- ler obtains a resale certificate from a licensed retailer),
- intermediate services, manufacturing, producing, canning,
- and for certain other types of taxpayers. A special tax
- rate of 0.15% applies to insurance solicitors' income.
-
- Businesses must register with the Dept. of Taxation on Form
- GEW-TA-RV-3, which is also used to obtain an employer's
- withholding number and a transient accommodations tax num-
- ber. A $20 fee must be paid to register, and you must
- renew the license by January 31 each year.
-
- A complementary "use tax" applies to certain transactions
- to which the GET does not apply, such as on tangible prop-
- erty bought outside of Hawaii and imported into the state.
- The use tax on such items is usually 4%, except that the
- lower 0.5% rate applies to items that are imported for
- purposes of resale. Use tax exemptions include newspapers
- and other periodicals, items imported for temporary use
- within the state, and autos imported for personal use (if
- used first while a resident of another state).
-
- Not all gross receipts are subject to the GET or related
- use tax. Exemptions to the GET include:
-
- . Sales of land or securities;
-
- . Wages, salaries;
-
- . Various state excise taxes, such as Transient
- Accommodations Tax (no tax on tax, except for
- GET itself);
-
- . Sales of tangible personal property to the
- federal government;
-
- . Income of banks or S & L's which are subject to
- the tax on financial institutions (the franchise
- tax);
-
- . Certain sales of tangible personal property
- that is shipped out of the state;
-
- . No tax on federal excise taxes collected on
- retail sales;
-
- . No tax on certain "casual sales" outside the
- normal scope of business.
-
- . Recent legislation now allows hotel operators to
- reduce taxable gross receipts by the amount dis-
- bursed for hotel employees' salaries, wages,
- bonuses, retirement contributions and other
- benefits.
-
- . Effective after July 1, 1992, gross income received
- by certain persons for planning, design, financing,
- construction or sale of "affordable housing units"
- is exempt from the tax, with various conditions
- and limitations (units had to be completed by the
- end of 1994, for example).
-
- Taxpayers subject to GET and use taxes are required to file
- monthly returns on Form G-45. If your annual tax is less
- than $2,000, you may file quarterly, and if less than
- $1,000, you may file semi-annual returns. In any case, you
- must also file an annual reconciliation return on Form G-49.
-
- Finally, note that the GET is imposed on the seller, not on
- the consumer, so you need not pass on the tax. In fact, if
- you do add the 4% tax to the price you charge the consumer,
- you must pay more GET on the additional amount collected.
- Thus, on a $100 item, if you charge the consumer $104 to
- cover the tax, you will owe tax of 4% times $104, or $4.16
- on the transaction, since you collected a total of $104.
- Some retailers add 4.16% tax to their charges.
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- @CODE: NM
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- │ GROSS RECEIPTS TAX (NEW MEXICO) │
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- Unlike most states, New Mexico does not have the typical
- sales and use tax that applies mostly to sales of tangible
- personal property. Instead, New Mexico has a "gross re-
- ceipts tax" on virtually all forms of gross income, includ-
- ing income from services as well as from the sale of goods.
- As such, it is a much broader and more pervasive tax than
- the sales tax imposed in all but a handful of the other
- 50 states. It applies to all gross receipts of all persons
- (including corporations, associations, etc.) selling pro-
- ducts or furnishing services within the state, but allows
- a number of deductions and exemptions.
-
- The tax rate is currently 5%, but cities and counties are
- allowed to add on local gross receipts taxes, so that rates
- range from as low as 5.125% to as much as 6.75% in differ-
- ent localities. As a seller subject to the tax, you must
- register on Form RP-31 with the New Mexico Taxation and
- Revenue Department. Businesses are generally required to
- file monthly returns on Form CRS-1, which is used to report
- gross receipts tax and, if applicable, state income tax
- withheld from wages.
-
- Major exemptions from the gross receipts tax include wages,
- salaries and commissions paid to employees; receipts of
- growers, producers, or nonprofit associations from selling
- livestock, poultry and unprocessed agricultural products;
- interest or dividend income; receipts from sales of stocks,
- bonds or other securities; and receipts from the sale or
- leasing of oil, natural gas, or mineral interests.
-
- Sales of various goods and services for resale are usually
- deductible from the gross receipts tax base, if the buyer
- gives the seller the appropriate type of Nontaxable Trans-
- action Certificate. Before July 1, 1994, there was a one-
- time fee of $100 for a buyer or lessee who sought permission
- to execute a Nontaxable Transaction Certificate, but this
- fee is no longer required.
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