Letter: Poking holes in empty homes tax alternative

Dec 27, 2024

Joe Kent in a recent column bemoans what he thinks are technical problems with a UCLA study supporting an empty homes tax (“Honolulu not right venue for an effective empty-homes tax,” Star-Advertiser, Island Voices, Dec. 5). But while arguing for his own preferred alternative, giving developers a blank check to do as they please, he makes a basic error. Kent has mixed his figures up.