Get your Hawaii reseller permit
A Hawaii reseller permit is issued by the Hawaii Department of Taxation and the state charges $20. Hawaii has a General Excise Tax rather than a sales tax. The GET license is a one-time $20. FastBusinessFiling completes and files the registration for a flat $50, so the total is $70. Verified on August 4, 2026.
Source: Hawaii Department of Taxation. Checked August 4, 2026.
Filed in a day. One flat price. Nothing you didn't ask for.
Filed within one business day
One tier, one speed, every order. There is no rush fee here because there is no slow lane to buy your way out of.
A specialist reads every filing
Prepared and checked before it is filed. If your name or address will not clear the state, you hear from us before it goes in.
Registered agent at $99, only if you want one
Optional, and it sits beside a free option to name yourself. Most people never need to buy it.
One price, and nothing starts on its own
$100 to form, $50 flat for every filing after. The only thing that can renew is a registered agent you chose, at the price you chose it for. No tiers, no trial that turns into a charge.
What does a Hawaii reseller permit cost in total?
$20 to the Hawaii Department of Taxation, plus our $50 to file the registration: $70 in total.
- Hawaii government fee
- $20
- Our service fee
- $50 flat
- Total through us
- $70
- Issued by
- Hawaii Department of Taxation
- Prepared and submitted
- Within one business day
- Renewals or subscriptions
- None
Does a Hawaii reseller permit protect your personal assets?
No. A permit registers you for sales tax; it does not put anything between your business and your personal assets. If that matters to you, forming an LLC in Hawaii costs $51 in state fees plus our $100.
What else does Hawaii require of an LLC?
Hawaii requires an annual report ($12.50 to the state) and a registered agent at all times, plus sales tax registration if you sell taxable goods.
Annual report
$12.50 to the state. Annual report, due at the end of the calendar quarter containing your registration anniversary. More on Hawaii annual reports.
Registered agent
Every Hawaii LLC has to name one. It can be you at no cost if you have a street address in the state. Ours is $99 a year and optional, with no first year that quietly becomes a renewal.
Trade name, if you use one
$50 to the state, plus our $50. Trade name registration lasts 5 years.
What else do people ask about Hawaii reseller permits?
$20 to the Hawaii Department of Taxation, plus our $50 to prepare and file it. $70 in total.
Usually not. A reseller permit registers you with the Hawaii Department of Taxation to collect and remit sales tax and to buy inventory for resale without paying tax on it. A business license is a separate permission to operate, often issued by a city or county. A few states fold both into one application; most do not.
You register where you have nexus, which is a tax question about where your business has enough presence or sales to owe the state something. Physical presence in Hawaii creates it; so can crossing a sales threshold from out of state. That is a question for your accountant, not for us. Most sellers start with their home state and add others as they grow.
Other Hawaii filings
What other states charge
Government fees on this page are paid to the Hawaii Department of Taxation. Fees are taken from each state's official fee schedule, last checked August 4, 2026. States change them without much warning, and your exact total is recalculated at checkout from the same table. FastBusinessFiling is a filing service, not a law firm or an accounting firm, and does not give legal or tax advice. You can file any of this yourself directly with Hawaii.
