The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1909-02-13
Taxation and
Tax Paying
Instructive Figures on Maui
Governmental Revenues.

Figures showing the tax returns
for the County of Maui for the year
1908 are as follows:
The assessment valuations are for
real property Sl4 ,046, 495; personal
property, sS,262, ,511; exemptions
1888, 1858; leaving total valuation
of s21 1915, ,653, taxable.
BY districts the tax levy run as
follows; Wailuku, assessments
Sly, ,932 90; collections S11I,267.- =
So; delinquent, S3,664.79. Maka-
wac, assessments SIS, ,S37.77; col
lections, $77,125.06; delinquent,
81, ,12.71. Lahaina and Lanai.
assessments, s57 ,311.5O; collections
S56, ,64S,63; delinquent, S6S3.91.
Hama, assessments $50, ,27S.12; col
lections, s35,615.32 delinquent,
1862. 20. Molokai, assqssments Sc, :
42S.73; collections, 81, 1908; de-
linquent s2,23S.7O.
The total collections run as fol-
lows: On real property S13S, ,550.-
W; personal, sS1 ,206.53; bicycles,
S31 80; automobiles, $4,000; car
riages and brakes, 81, 1S5 CO.; dog
tax, s713.3O; personal taxes, $780,
O15.OO; penalties, interests and
costs, 81 ,96S. 10; all delinquents
collected, $l5, 70, income taxes
S34 ,O63 .2S, making II grand total of
1899, POI 40.
In addition to the foregoing, in
come taxes Of corporations doing
business on Maui paid in Honolulu
amount to SO, ,692. .03, making the
total tax collection for Maui, $31S,-
S93.52.
Classified by nationalities the tax
payers of Maui or the Second Tax
Division are rated as follows:
Corporation, assessed, 1924 ,S75.
%; collected, 1924, ,637.73; delin-
quent s237.52.
japanese, assessed, $29, 9,6SS.76; |
collected, S2S, 427 20; delinquent,
VI ,26l. So.
Hawaiians, assessed, VIA, ,693. 36;
collected, 10, ,5223l; delinquent,
5,17LO5.
Americans and Europeans, as
sessed $l4,475.13; collected, $l3,-
5lO,50; delinquent, $964.63.
Portuguese, assessed, S6, 254. 16;
collected, S5,63i.06; delinquent, |
S620.l0.
Chinese, assessed, S6, ,903 81; |
collected, Sc, ,115.10; delinquent,
$7SS.57.
Total assessed, 1896, $50. 33; the
collections, 1887 $40, 80, the delin-
quents S9,O43. .43 not, including
hold over delinquents from previous
years, from whom ", ,337 .04. were
collected the past year.
From the above totals of collected
taxes the County of Maui received
as special road taxes from bicycles,
automobiles, carriages, brakes and
personal road tax, SO, ,733 90, and
from the remainder fifty per cent
amounting to S149,-
5S0.26.
Not including the income tax on
Maui corporations collected in Ho-
nolulu, J. II. Kunewa the Tax AS
SCISSOR in chief for Maui estimates
the tax receipts for the year 1909 at
$500, ,OOOC0, which is a very conser-
vative estimate, in view of the fact
the yearly increase in former times
averages over six per cent year.
An increase at the same rate would
put the total tax at about S3l7,-
600 90, and the figure for income
taxes collected in Honolulu at about
s21 10000, or a total of S33S ,000.-
90 for governmental revenues for
the year 1909.
An important change has been
made in the method of paying
deputy tax assessors. Formerly
were by commissions, be-
ginning from the first of this year
the deputies are to be paid by
salaries.