Report Title:

Mutual Benefit Society Tax Exemption Repeal

Description:

Repeals the exemption from state, county, and municipal taxes provided to mutual benefit societies under article 1 of chapter 432, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1763

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 432:1-403, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.

["§432:1-403 Nonprofit medical, hospital indemnity associations; tax exemption. Every association or society organized and operating under this article solely as a nonprofit medical indemnity or hospital service association or society or both shall be, from the time of such organization, exempt from every state, county and municipal tax, except unemployment compensation tax. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to exempt the association or society from liability to withhold the taxes payable by its employees and to pay the same to the proper collection officers, and to keep such records, and make such returns and reports, as may be required in the case of other corporations, associations or societies similarly exempted from such taxes."]

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002.

INTRODUCED BY:

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