Posted at 11:19 a.m., Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Curbside service for last-minute tax filers
Advertiser Staff
The U.S. Postal Service will continue its tradition of providing curbside service Monday to last-minute filers of federal tax returns at its drive-by collection boxes at the airport and downtown post offices in Honolulu.Postal employees will be manning the collection boxes from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the airport and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. downtown. Also, 26 post offices across the state, including the airport and downtown offices, will offer late collection of mail in specially marked boxes until midnight Monday.
The Internal Revenue Service moved the filing deadline to Monday because the normal April 15 deadline fell on a weekend.
Hawai'i wage hike trails national average
The average weekly wage in Hawai'i rose to $714 in the third quarter of 2005, up 5.8 percent from the same period a year earlier, according to a report released today by the U.S. Labor Department.
The Hawai'i increase trailed the national average of a 6.1 percent increase in wages to $777 during the same period. Locally, Maui County experienced the biggest increase, a 7.6 percent rise to $644. In Hawai'i County wages rose 6.9 percent to $639, Kaua'i County wages rose 5.9 percent to $613 and Honolulu County wages rose 5.4 percent to $740.
Financial planning program offered to military families
Sen. Daniel Akaka today launched the Hawai'i chapter a federal campaign to help military families manage their finances better.
The campaign will include a special section on "payday loans" — which are often targeted at members of the military and can carry exorbitant interest rates.
The campaign is sponsored by the National Association of Securities Dealers Investor Education Foundation in cooperation with the Department of Defense. Akaka is launching the first of such programs that will be conducted across the country.
