2011 Hawaii Code
DIVISION 1. GOVERNMENT
TITLE 14. TAXATION
237. General Excise Tax Law
§237-31 Remittances.

§237-31 Remittances. All remittances of taxes imposed by this chapter shall be made by money, bank draft, check, cashier's check, money order, or certificate of deposit to the office of the department of taxation to which the return was transmitted. The department shall issue its receipts therefor to the taxpayer and shall pay the moneys into the state treasury as a state realization, to be kept and accounted for as provided by law; provided that:

(1) The sum from all general excise tax revenues realized by the State that represents the difference between $45,000,000 and the proceeds from the sale of any general obligation bonds authorized for that fiscal year for the purposes of the state educational facilities improvement special fund shall be deposited in the state treasury in each fiscal year to the credit of the state educational facilities improvement special fund;

(2) A sum, not to exceed $5,000,000, from all general excise tax revenues realized by the State shall be deposited in the state treasury in each fiscal year to the credit of the compound interest bond reserve fund; and

(3) A sum from all general excise tax revenues realized by the State that is equal to one-half of the total amount of funds appropriated or transferred out of the hurricane reserve trust fund under sections 4 and 5 of Act 62, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, shall be deposited into the hurricane reserve trust fund in fiscal year 2013-2014 and in fiscal year 2014-2015; provided that the deposit required in each fiscal year shall be made by October 1 of that fiscal year. [L 1935, c 141, §12; RL 1945, §5462; RL 1955, §117-26; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §16; HRS §237-31; am L 1981, c 159, §1; am L 1984, c 163, §1; am L 1985, c 239, §1; am L 1989, c 368, §3; am L 1990, c 163, §3; am L 1992, c 209, §§1, 6 as superseded by am L 1993, c 364, §25; am L 1999, c 110, §1 and c 155, §4; am L 2004, c 115, §2; am L 2006, c 304, §§2, 4; am L 2009, c 11, §3; am L 2011, c 62, §8]

Cross References

Deposits to highway fund, see §248-8.

State educational facilities improvement special fund, see §36-32.