Bill Text: HI HB345 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Taxation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-11-30 - Carried over to 2018 Regular Session. [HB345 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-HB345-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO TAXATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 237-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§237-2 "Business",
"engaging" in business, defined. "Business" as used in
this chapter, includes all activities (personal, professional, or corporate),
engaged in or caused to be engaged in with the object of gain or economic
benefit either direct or indirect, [but does not include casual sales.] without
regard to having a physical presence, including the presence of a
representative acting on behalf of the person in this State, except that "business"
does not include:
(1) Casual sales;
(2) Having a worldwide website as a third-party content provider on a computer physically located in this State, but owned by another nonaffiliated person;
(3) Using a nonaffiliated third-party call center to accept and process telephone or electronic orders of tangible personal property or licenses primarily from non-Hawaii buyers, which orders are forwarded to a location outside this State for filling or to provide services primarily to non-Hawaii customers; and
(4) The activities of a person without a physical presence in this State, if the person and the person's affiliates have less than $100,000 of gross receipts in the State, based on receipts during the prior calendar year. As used in this paragraph, "affiliate" means a business entity that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another business entity.
The term "engaging" as used in this chapter with reference to engaging or continuing in business also includes the exercise of corporate or franchise powers."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2017.
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Report Title:
General Excise Tax; Businesses Without Physical Presence in the State
Description:
Amends the definition of "business" in the State's general excise tax law.
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