November 26, 2025
From a win for A&E Television Networks over New York City's unincorporated business tax to Colorado voters' approval of ballot measures to raise income taxes on high earners, November was a lively month for state and local tax. Here, Law360 looks at these and other state and local tax highlights from the past month.
November 24, 2025
Hawaii's motion in federal court to dismiss a complaint over the expansion of the state's transient occupancy tax to cruise ship passengers has progressed too far for the court to grant a stay of the motion, the state said in a filing.
November 18, 2025
The federal government should be allowed to join a cruise industry trade group's case against the state of Hawaii and several counties over the extension of a transient occupancy tax to cruise passengers, the U.S. Department of Justice told a Hawaii federal court.
October 07, 2025
A group of cruise companies should be allowed to proceed with their complaint against the state of Hawaii for an extension of a transient occupancy tax to cruise passengers, the companies told a federal district court, saying the Tax Injunction Act doesn't bar the complaint.
August 28, 2025
The extension of Hawaii's 11% transient accommodation tax to cruise ship passengers under a new law violates the U.S. Constitution, a group of cruise companies told a U.S. district court.