{"id":71802,"date":"2017-12-05T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T23:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=71802"},"modified":"2019-02-11T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:22:11","slug":"lassner-sends-note-to-students-regarding-tax-reform-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/12\/05\/lassner-sends-note-to-students-regarding-tax-reform-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Lassner sends note to students regarding tax reform bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/manoa-lab-student.jpg\" alt=\"students looking through mircoscope\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-71821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/manoa-lab-student.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/manoa-lab-student-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> President and <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Interim Chancellor <strong>David Lassner<\/strong> sent an email to the M\u0101noa campus on December 1 outlining concerns many students have related to the tax reform bill making its way through Congress.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Concerns about current tax reform efforts<\/h2>\n<p>Aloha<\/p>\n<p><p>Many of you have reached out to me to express concern about various provisions of the tax reform bills in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, particularly the impacts on graduate students. I absolutely share your concerns, and here\u2019s a quick update.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-November I met face-to-face with all four members of our congressional delegation, and tax reform was the first item I raised. All of our delegation will do what they can to help.<\/p>\n<p>I also met with leaders of our higher education associations. They are all communicating directly with Congress and are mobilizing advocacy from within all states to oppose the provisions that would be especially damaging to higher education students and institutions. Among the provisions in the current House and\/or Senate Bills with negative impact on higher education are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Making graduate assistant tuition waivers taxable.<\/li>\n<li>Negative changes to tax deductibility and tax credits associated with certain student loan programs.<\/li>\n<li>Increasing the standard deduction in a way that would reduce charitable giving nationwide, including to universities.<\/li>\n<li>Eliminating certain tax-exempt bond options that have been available for major university projects.<\/li>\n<li>Making more university activities taxable.<\/li>\n<li>Eliminating the deduction for State and Local Taxes, which will make it harder for states to support public higher education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are concerned, I encourage you to reach out directly and immediately, especially through any channels you have available to Republican members of the U.S. House and Senate. Sharing your own personal stories of impact will be most effective.<\/p>\n<p>David Lassner<br \/>\n<abbr>UH<\/abbr> President and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Interim Chancellor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> President and M\u0101noa Interim Chancellor David Lassner sent an email to the M\u0101noa campus outlining concerns many students have related to the tax reform bill making its way through Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-71802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71802"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90681,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71802\/revisions\/90681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}