HADA - Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association

HADA Proposes a Cool Plan
Cruel Plan vs. Cool Plan

Oahu’s traffic will worsen after the rail according to the City’s analysis

What’s unfair about the Current Transportation plan is it seeks to boost use of the rail system by making roadway use miserable. This plan is particularly cruel to longstanding users of the express bus, who, in just a few years, will be force into taking grinding two-hour commutes, as the express buses share the limited highway lanes with jammed up single-occupant vehicles.

In this regard the single-solution (rail only) plan is particularly cruel.

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UPDATE: October 3, 2008
Hawaii’s New Car Dealers Elect New Officers and Directors for 2009 at Their Annual HADA Convention Held on Maui This Year

Wailea, Maui—The members of the Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association, Hawaii’s franchised new car dealers, elected a new set officers and directors for 2009 at the association’s annual meeting, 8 a.m. Friday, October 3, 2008 at the Fairmont Kea Lani Resort, Wailea Maui.

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UPDATE: June 30, 2008
The history of a tax that finally ends July 1, 2008

The Supreme Court Ruling

In a 1972 decision, the Tax Appeal Court, in the case of 711 Motors, Inc. ruled that an automobile dealer was not taxable on reimbursements received from a manufacturer for the dealer’s costs incurred in making good the manufacturer’s warranty on cars sold.

However, this ruling was reversed in 1973, in the Aloha Motors case. And in 1975, the Hawaii Supreme Court upheld the Aloha Motors ruling and said that payments received by automobile dealers from manufacturers for warranty service to customers are taxable sales.”
Excerpts-- Taxes of Hawaii 2008
by Aileen Utterdyke

Throughout the rest of the 70’s, the 80’s, the 90’s and up until July 1, 2008, in this decade, Hawaii dealers have been paying the 4% tax on the warranty payments from a manufacturer to fulfill a new car warranty.

On July 1, 2008—the tax is reduced to the half percent rate by ACT 89.

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Joe Nicolai’s helpful reminder

HADA legislative chair, Joe Nicolai, who was also instrumental in another helpful tax reduction bill for businesses, reminds dealers that the unemployment tax measure that passed last year, went into effect at the start of this year, lowering the wage base set for the unemployment tax from $34,000 down to $13,000 for 2008 because of the massive buildup in the fund due to low unemployment in the state. Dealers should ensure that they are not still paying unemployment tax on the higher 2007 wage base.