Bookkeeping for Kauai small businesses.
Monthly bookkeeping and cleanups in QuickBooks Online for small businesses from Lihue to Hanalei and Waimea to Kapaa.
GET on Kauai
Kauai added its county surcharge on 1 January 2019. Retail sales and services paid 4 percent before that, with 4.1666 percent the most you could pass on. Since then it is 4.5 and 4.712.
Wholesale, manufacturing and producing stay at 0.5 percent, and the surcharge does not touch them. A farm or a maker that also sells retail has to keep the two apart in the books.
Vacation rentals
A rental on Kauai owes GET at 4.5 percent, the state TAT at 11 percent from 1 January 2026, and the county TAT at 3 percent. Kauai was the first county to start its own TAT, on 1 October 2021, and since 1 February 2026 it has been paid through a new county payment site.
GET you visibly pass on to a guest can come out of the income the TAT is figured on. I keep the rent, cleaning fees and payouts apart so each return starts from the right number.
Working together
Your books live in QuickBooks Online, so all of this works by video and phone and neither of us has to get on a plane. If you are close, I am always up for a coffee.
It starts with the free diagnostic. We go through your file together, and within five business days you get a written summary of what I found. Nothing in your file is changed.
The Free Diagnostic
A free look at your books before anyone agrees to anything.
We go through your QuickBooks together and I tell you what I see. If your books are clean enough, I will also show you a few quick moves that could put more money in your pocket.