Government Accountability

Downtown Honolulu’s ‘New Tax’ Gamble: Will It Revive Small Businesses or Just Burden Them More?

By Economics Desk | August 27, 2025

As Honolulu City Council eyes a new tax to revive its struggling downtown, small business owners warn the plan misses the true problem—lack of customers amid shifting work patterns. Will more fees solve what years of pandemic-driven changes and poor policy failed to address?

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