(a) A Hawaii generation-skipping transfer tax is imposed on every taxable transfer involving:

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-17

  • Applicable generation-skipping transfer tax rate: means 2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • Department: means the department of taxation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • Federal generation-skipping transfer tax: means the tax due to the United States with respect to a taxable transfer under chapter 13 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • Federal return: means the federal estate tax return with respect to the federal estate tax and means the federal generation-skipping transfer tax return with respect to the federal generation-skipping transfer tax. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • Federal transfer tax: means the federal estate tax or the federal generation-skipping transfer tax. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • Generation-skipping transfer: means a generation-skipping transfer as defined and used in section 2611 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • Hawaii generation-skipping transfer tax: means the tax due to the State with respect to a taxable transfer that gives rise to a federal generation-skipping transfer tax. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • Internal Revenue Code: means subtitle B of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of December 31, 2022, as it applies to the determination of gross estate, adjusted gross estate, federal taxable estate, and generation-skipping transfers, except those provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and federal public laws that, pursuant to this chapter, do not apply or are otherwise limited in application. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-3
  • Person: means any individual, estate, trust, receiver, cooperative association, club, corporation, company, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, or other entity and, to the extent permitted by law, any federal, state, or other governmental unit or subdivision or agency, department, or instrumentality thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • Property: means property included in the gross estate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • Resident: means a decedent who was domiciled in the State at the time of death. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • State: means any state or territory of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • taxable transfer: means :

    (1) A transfer as used in section 2001(a) of the Internal Revenue Code and shall include the disposition of or failure to use property for a qualified use under section 2032A(c) of the Internal Revenue Code; or

    (2) A generation-skipping transfer as defined and used in section 2611 of the Internal Revenue Code; provided that a direct skip that is a transfer subject to the tax imposed by chapter 12 of the Internal Revenue Code shall not be treated as a taxable transfer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2

  • Transferred property: means :

    (1) With respect to a taxable transfer subject to the federal estate tax, the deceased individual's gross estate as defined in section 2031 of the Internal Revenue Code;

    (2) With respect to a taxable transfer occurring as a result of a taxable termination as defined in section 2612(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, the taxable amount determined under section 2622(a) of the Internal Revenue Code;

    (3) With respect to a taxable transfer occurring as a result of a taxable distribution as defined in section 2612(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, the taxable amount determined under section 2621(a) of the Internal Revenue Code;

    (4) With respect to a taxable transfer occurring as a result of a direct skip, as defined in section 2612(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, the taxable amount determined under section 2623 of the Internal Revenue Code; and

    (5) With respect to an event which causes the imposition of an additional federal estate tax under section 2032A(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, the qualified real property that was disposed of or which ceased to be used for the qualified use, within the meaning of section 2032A(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2

(1) Transferred property located in the State; and
(2) Transferred property from a resident trust.
(b) The tax shall be the applicable generation-skipping transfer tax rate multiplied by the taxable amount as determined under chapter 13 of the Internal Revenue Code, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the taxable transfer subject to the tax under subsection (a) and the denominator of which is the total amount of taxable transfers subject to the federal generation-skipping transfer tax.
(c) The person required to report and pay the federal generation-skipping transfer tax, or, if no federal generation-skipping transfer tax is due, the person who would be required to report and pay the federal generation-skipping transfer tax if any were due, shall file with the department the following:

(1) A report for the generation-skipping transfer tax due under this section; and
(2) A true copy of the federal generation-skipping transfer tax return, if any is due.

The information required under this subsection shall be filed with the department on or before the date prescribed in section 2662 of the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

(d) If a federal transfer tax is due and the person required to file the return has obtained an extension of time for filing the federal return, the filing required by subsection (c) shall be extended similarly until the end of the time period granted in the extension of time for the federal return. A true copy of the extension shall be filed with the department along with the report required under subsection (c).

If a federal transfer tax is not due, the director of taxation may grant a reasonable extension of time for filing returns under rules as the department shall prescribe.

(e) If a taxable transfer subject to the Hawaii generation-skipping transfer tax is subject to a generation-skipping transfer tax imposed by another state and if the tax imposed by the other state is not qualified by a reciprocal provision allowing the property to be taxed in this State, the amount of the tax due under this section shall be credited with the lesser of:

(1) The amount of the generation-skipping transfer tax actually paid the other state; or
(2) An amount computed by multiplying the Hawaii generation-skipping transfer tax by a fraction, the numerator of which is the taxable transfer subject to the generation-skipping transfer tax imposed by the other state, and the denominator of which is the total amount of the taxable transfers subject to the federal generation-skipping transfer tax.
(f) For the purposes of this section, the term “trust” includes a trust as defined in section 2652(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code.