The problem as I see it as that Airbnb doesn't have an interface to specify the collected taxes separately from rent. That's required by Hawaii tax department, and it's not possible in Airbnb interface.
Vacation rental owners on Hawaii must specify explicitey how much tax they collect in the quote that that send to the guest. Taxes for transient accommodations in Hawaii are 13.42% (9.25% TAT + 4.1667% GET), only on Oahu GET is higher at 4.712%.
The following brochure (edition of 2016):
http://files.hawaii.gov/tax/legal/brochures/transient_accomodations.pdf
explains on page 3:
If you charge your guest or tenant a flat fee without separately stating the GET and the TAT, you are required to pay GET (including the 0.5% county surcharge if the transient accommodation is on Oahu) and TAT on the entire amount."
So, for example, if the rent for a rental accommodation on Maui is $1000, the owner must explicitely state $1000 rent + $134.2 Hawaii tax. If the owner quotes $1134.20 total, which implicitely includes $134.20 tax, this owner would legally own 13.42% of the $1134.20 - $152.21 insted of $134.20.
VRBO/HA have the payment interface that allows to do easily specify your occupancy tax and to include it in the quote.
I don't understand why Airbnb can't make such a chage in their payment interface. It's important not only to Hawaii owners, who
literally break the Hawaiian tax code by not showing the state tax as a separate charge. We have a rental house in Lake Tahoe, and it's very inconvenient to "price in" the occupancy tax into the Airbnb rates.