Makai works out Hawaii's general excise tax on your gross receipts, keeps every G-45 on its 20th - even the ones with nothing to report - reconciles the year on the G-49, and shows what coming forward late costs before it costs it.
Opens in this browser with an invented dancer already in it. No account, no email address, nothing installed. Never holds a Social Security number, a tax account login or a bank account.
The problem
Hawaii taxes gross receipts - every fee and booking, before a single expense - at 4% plus a 0.5% county surcharge. Independent contractors owe it too. There is a return every period whether you earned anything or not, and late filing costs 5% a month.
the state's 4% plus the 0.5% county surcharge on Oahu, Maui, Hawaii and Kauai.
Hawaii Department of Taxation →a G-45 is filed for every period, with or without gross income to report.
Hawaii Department of Taxation →Not a reminder. A filing frequency your tax does not allow is refused. A G-45 is refused before its period ends, twice, without the gross receipts, or paid short of the tax and any late cost. A G-49 is refused with a period of the year not filed. Nothing is deleted.
How it works
And the frequency your year's tax allows.
Gross receipts at 4.5%, by the 20th, even at zero.
The year against its periods, by April 20.
What it will never do
Makai holds receipts and returns, nothing more.
Pricing
For one creator.
Every G-45 and the G-49.
Monthly. Your bank statement says Makai Software. Your licence key is on your screen as soon as the payment confirms.
Pay by card through Square, on Square’s own checkout page — we never see or store your card number. Or pay with bitcoin through our own bitcoin server. Either way you come back here, type your business name, and your licence key is on the screen — no email, no waiting on us.
Questions
Yes - Hawaii's general excise tax reaches services and independent contractors, on gross receipts.
File the G-45 anyway, with zeros. Makai will not let a period go missing.
Many do. To keep your 4.5% whole, the arithmetic is 4.712% of the fee - Makai shows it.
No. It is the arithmetic and the record.
The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, on your screen as soon as the payment confirms: the checkout brings you back to our thank-you page, you type your business name and the key appears. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.
The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.
An invented Honolulu dancer has twenty months of G-45s - the last quarter is waiting to be filed.