Bookkeeping for Maui, Molokai and Lanai.
Monthly bookkeeping and cleanups in QuickBooks Online for small businesses across Maui County, from Kahului and Kihei to Hana.
GET on Maui
Maui County added its half percent surcharge on 1 January 2024, the newest of the four counties. Before that, retail sales and services on Maui paid 4 percent and the most you could pass on was 4.1666 percent. Since then it is 4.5 and 4.712.
If your books reach back before 2024, the years on either side are filed at different rates. An invoice template or a sales tax setting in QuickBooks that never got changed keeps charging the old one, and the difference comes out of your pocket.
After the fires
If your business is rebuilding after the August 2023 fires, the insurance money, the grants and the disaster loans each get recorded their own way. None of it is sales, and a loan is not income at all.
Your CPA decides how each one is taxed. They can only do that if the books show each one on its own.
Vacation rentals
A rental in Maui County owes GET at 4.5 percent, the state TAT at 11 percent from 1 January 2026, and the county TAT at 3 percent, which started 1 November 2021. From 5 October 2026 the county takes its TAT through myMauiTAT.
GET you visibly pass on to a guest can come out of the income the TAT is figured on. I keep the rent, cleaning fees and payouts apart so each return starts from the right number.
Working together
Your books live in QuickBooks Online, so all of this works by video and phone and neither of us has to get on a plane. If you are close, I am always up for a coffee.
It starts with the free diagnostic. We go through your file together, and within five business days I show you what I found. Nothing in your file is changed.
The Free Diagnostic
A free look at your books before anyone agrees to anything.
We go through your QuickBooks together and I tell you what I see. If your books are clean enough, I will also show you a few quick moves that could put more money in your pocket.