STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1290

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1414

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1414, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Auditor to execute a contract for a contractor to investigate the tax system modernization project of the Department of Taxation.

 

     This measure also appropriates funds for the investigation and requires the Auditor to report findings to the Legislature.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Taxation, Office of the Auditor, and State Procurement Office.

 

     Your Committee finds that an independent investigation by an entity not currently involved with the development of the tax system modernization project will facilitate accurate and objective information on any operational problems of the project and associated lost tax revenue, which in turn will help to improve the implementation of the final version of the project.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation amount from an unspecified sum to $300,000, as requested by the Auditor.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1414, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1414, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair