"Do Indian tribes pay taxes?
Indian tribal businesses do pay a wide variety of taxes, including taxes on wagering, occupational taxes, and employment taxes. For federal income tax purposes, however, Indian tribes are governmental entities and, as such, are not required to pay taxes on the income generated by the Indian tribes, including income generated by commercial activities.
Do Indian individuals pay taxes?
Indians are subject to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) code and pay taxes on the same basis as any other citizen of the United States subject to minor differences. While gaming profits generated by the tribes are not taxed at the tribal level, any payments of those profits in the form of per capita payments to tribal members are considered taxable income under the IRS code."
exerpts copied from this website:
http://www.nigc.gov/About_Us/Frequently_Asked_Questions.aspx
"Do American Indians and Alaska Natives pay taxes?
Yes. They pay the same taxes as other citizens with the following exceptions:
?Federal income taxes are not levied on income from trust lands held for them by the U.S.
?State income taxes are not paid on income earned on a federal Indian reservation.
?State sales taxes are not paid by Indians on transactions made on a federal Indian reservation.
?Local property taxes are not paid on reservation or trust land."
Exerpts from :
http://www.bia.gov/FAQs/
Minor differences indeed. And zero mention of paying property taxes to any local or county agency. In other words, the tribe buys up half the land in town, puts in a casino, and the local gov't can kiss that property tax rev bye bye.
And if I read those paragraphs correctly, it says in the Fed code that casino's don't pay Federal income taxes either.
Am I googling the wrong information here? [edit] Wouldn't be the 1st time I was wrong about something, but I just never have read actual paper clippings, or heard definitively on a news channel, that anything to do with a Tribe, or it's Tribal lands, were being taxed like the rest of non-indian America. Only good atributes I've picked up on over the years is that casinos, like em or not, provide jobs for locals, which is a good thing IMO.