Property Tax Appeal · Honolulu County, HI
Appeal your property taxes
in Honolulu County, HI.
Home to Honolulu, Honolulu County homeowners appeal through Hawaii’s system: the county real property assessment division sets the value, and the county Board of Review hears the case. Boards act on evidence of market value as of the assessment date — a licensed, USPAP-compliant appraisal is that evidence. Start with the $5 check to see what you’d save.
Each county sets its own: Honolulu appeals are due January 15 after mid-December notices; Maui, Hawaii County, and Kauai run separate calendars — your assessment notice states yours. Your assessment notice states the exact date — and the appraiser prepares your report and filing guidance for Honolulu County’s procedure.
Home exemptions differ island to island and can be substantial — confirm yours is applied before deciding the assessment itself is the problem. Honolulu’s rules, for example, ask you to show the assessment overshoots market value by a meaningful margin, which makes a defensible value number the whole game.
Honolulu County questions
Each county sets its own: Honolulu appeals are due January 15 after mid-December notices; Maui, Hawaii County, and Kauai run separate calendars — your assessment notice states yours. Your assessment notice states the exact date for Honolulu County.
Hawaii has no state property tax — the four counties (Honolulu, Maui, Hawaii, and Kauai) each run their own assessment division, set their own rates and exemptions, and hear their own appeals. Assessment notices arrive on the county’s schedule (Honolulu mails in mid-December for a January 15 deadline), and appeals go to that county’s Board of Review, with the state Tax Appeal Court as a further step. Hawaii’s tax rates are the lowest in the nation, but the values underneath them are among the highest, so an over-assessment still costs real money — and every island’s board weighs the same thing: credible comparable-sales evidence of market value on the assessment date, the core of a licensed appraisal.
Comparable sales as of the assessment date, adjusted for the differences between those homes and yours — the substance of a licensed appraisal. county Board of Review panels see hundreds of cases; a signed, USPAP-compliant report is the document they can act on.
We’re not an AVM, a computer model, or a real-estate agent estimate. Every report is prepared under the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) and signed by a licensed appraiser in your state — the same qualification required for mortgage appraisals.