(a) The Hawaii transfer tax return, including any supplemental or amended return, is required to be filed pursuant to this chapter whenever a federal estate tax return or applicable generation-skipping transfer tax return is required to be filed or any tax is owed under this chapter. The return shall be filed, and the Hawaii transfer tax, including any additional tax that may become due, shall be paid by:

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-9

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Decedent: means a deceased individual owning property in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • Department: means the department of taxation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Federal estate tax: means the tax due to the United States with respect to a taxable transfer under chapter 11 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
  • Gross estate: The total fair market value of all property and property interests, real and personal, tangible and intangible, of which a decedent had beneficial ownership at the time of death before subtractions for deductions, debts, administrative expenses, and casualty losses suffered during estate administration.
  • Gross estate: means gross estate as defined and used in sections 2031 to 2046 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • Hawaii transfer tax: means the Hawaii estate tax or the Hawaii 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
  • Personal representative: means the personal representative of a decedent appointed under chapter 560, and includes an executor as defined under section 2203 of the Internal Revenue Code, administrator, successor personal representative, special administrator, and persons who perform substantially the same function under the law governing their status. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • Property: means property included in the gross estate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 236E-2
  • Revocable trust: A trust agreement that can be canceled, rescinded, revoked, or repealed by the grantor (person who establishes the trust).
  • Situs: means , with respect to a decedent not a resident or citizen of the United States, the location of the decedent's property within the meaning of section 2104 of the Internal Revenue Code, including regulations and other guidance issued thereunder, substituting "Hawaii" for "the United States". 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
  • 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) The same person or persons, respectively, who are required to pay the federal transfer tax and file the federal return, including any duly authorized executor or administrator; or
(2) If no federal transfer tax or federal return is due, the person who would be required to pay the federal transfer tax and file the federal return if any were due.

If there is more than one executor or administrator, the return shall be made jointly by all. If there is no executor or administrator appointed, qualified, and acting, each person in actual or constructive possession of any property of the decedent is constituted an executor for purposes of the tax and shall make and file a return. If in any case the executor is unable to make a complete return as to any part of the gross estate, the executor shall provide all the information available to the executor with respect to the property, including a full description and the name of every person holding a legal or beneficial interest in the property. If the executor is unable to make a return as to any property, each person holding a legal or equitable interest in the property shall, upon notice from the department, make a return as to that part of the gross estate.

(b) Any return required to be filed by this section shall be filed with the department on or before the date prescribed by section 6075 of the Internal Revenue Code for the federal estate tax return or section 2662 of the Internal Revenue Code for the applicable generation-skipping transfer tax return, including any extension of time for filing the federal estate tax return or applicable generation-skipping transfer tax return.
(c)

(1) The personal representative, without assessment, notice, or demand, shall pay any tax due thereon to the department on or before the date fixed for filing the return, out of any moneys belonging to the estate in the personal representative’s hands; and
(2) The personal representative shall have the same powers and duties with respect to the raising of funds for the payment of the tax as conferred upon an executor under sections 2205, 2206, 2207, 2207A, and 2207B of the Internal Revenue Code, and pursuant to the laws of the State in the case of raising funds for the payment of a decedent‘s debts generally. Any provision in a decedent’s will or revocable trust in which a decedent effectively waives a right of recovery under a section of the Internal Revenue Code specified in this paragraph shall be deemed a waiver of the corresponding right of recovery under this section, unless the will or revocable trust specifically states otherwise.
(d) For the purposes of this chapter, the timely filing of any tax return, claim, statement, report, or other document required or authorized to be filed with, or the timeliness of any payment made to, the department and any notice required or authorized to be given by the department shall be governed by chapter 231.
(e) If a federal transfer tax return is due and any portion of the federal transfer tax is deferred or to be paid in installments under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, the portion of the Hawaii transfer tax that is subject to deferral or payable in installments shall be determined by multiplying the Hawaii transfer tax by a fraction, the numerator of which is the gross value of the assets included in the transferred property having a tax situs in the State and that give rise to the deferred or installment payment under the Internal Revenue Code, and the denominator of which is the gross value of all assets included in the transferred property having a tax situs in the State.

If a federal transfer tax return is not due, the executor may elect to defer or pay in installments the Hawaii transfer tax in any situation where, if a federal transfer tax return was due, any portion of the federal transfer tax could have been deferred or allowed to be paid in installments under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code; provided that the director of taxation shall determine the eligibility for deferral or installment payments.

Deferred payments and installment payments, with interest, shall be paid at the same time and in the same manner as payments of the federal transfer tax are required to be made under the applicable sections of the Internal Revenue Code; provided that the rate of interest on unpaid amounts of Hawaii transfer tax shall be determined under this chapter.

Acceleration of payment under this section shall occur under the same circumstances and in the same manner as provided in the Internal Revenue Code.

(f) No return shall be required to be filed unless a federal estate tax return or applicable generation-skipping transfer tax return is required to be filed.