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Article: Proposal cuts golf course taxes
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
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- March 1, 2002
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Oahu golf course owners want the City Council to give them a break on their property taxes.
A bill introduced by Councilwoman Rene Mansho would do that by creating a new property tax classification for golf courses, with a lower tax rate.
Golf courses are "helping with their open space and green space and their ability to recharge the aquifer," Mansho said. "Most golf courses are used for landscaping, flood drainage ways, so they have an important value. So why are we taxing them at the same rate as high commercial users like hotel, commercial and industrial?"
Several of Mansho's colleagues, however, question the need to give a certain industry a tax break, particularly when the city is ...