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1/7/2008
Native Americans win coming and going?
Let me get this straight. Cigarettes and tobacco products sold on American Indian reservations include the full amount of the excise taxes – but a major portion of those taxes is sent back to the tribes (72% of the total) - $59.6 million from July 2001 to July 2006. Now, those taxes can be used for any purpose – but some of it is used to reduce cigarette prices below other area retailers. And I suppose much of the tobacco tax money we pay to Native American retailers is used for whatever the tribes want to use it. I wonder how much is going toward tribal health care…..
An article in the Green Bay Press Gazette tries to explain this whole tax reimbursement thing. I had to read it a few times to figure it out – but it’s all there. It’s also in the June, 2007, pre-final budget Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo that covers the subject. The report is 5 pages – but here’s the operative stuff. Under federal law, states are prohibited from imposing a cigarette tax on sales of cigarettes by Native Americans to Native Americans on reservations. However, a state may assess a cigarette tax on sales that occur on tribal lands to non-Native American purchasers and may require the Native American seller to collect the tax for the state on such sales.
Wisconsin statutes direct DOR to refund 70% of cigarette taxes from all sales on reservations or trust lands ….The statutes further authorize DOR to enter into agreements with the tribes to provide for the refunding of 100% of cigarette tax collections from sales on reservations to tribal members. The net effect of these provisions is a 70% refund on sales to non-tribal members and a 100% refund on sales to tribal members. A similar process applies for [other] tobacco products [e.g., chewing tobacco], except that the refund rate for sales to non-tribal members is 50%. The refund provisions are intended to encourage Native American retailers to sell only taxed products. The refund provisions are intended to encourage Native American retailers to sell only taxed products. [emphases are mine]
Now, didn’t I just read that the state has spent $1.2M (10 times its initial estimate) to collect $72 million in gambling fees that are still owed it from the Ho-Chunk Nation? I’m assuming we’re sending cigarette taxes back to the Ho-Chunk as we are to the Oneidas (?). So why are we sending tax money to the Ho-Chunk Nation when they owe us $72 million.
COMMENTS
Didn't our current Governor also sign gaming compacts in "perpetuity" with these same Native Americans?
Gerry (Mon Jan 07 08:59:56 2008)
Absolutely. And without the input or consent of the legislature. And the next question: how were the governor's campaign coffers impacted by tribal and Indian nation contributions?
Jo E. (Mon Jan 07 09:20:03 2008)
"So why are we sending tax money to the Ho-Chunk Nation when they owe us $72 million."
The tribes sure get a better deal from the government than private citizens do; when I owe the state money - or even when they THINK I owe them which I did not last year thank-you-very-much State of Wisconsin - they are not shy about with holding money they owe me.
Where do I sign up for a deal like that?
Brian (Mon Jan 07 11:35:14 2008)
The net effect is rising distrust and racial animosity. This is very bad. Why do the Legislature and Governor pit friends and neighbors against one another with inequitable government entitlements?
The same could be said of government employees and their comparitively generous benefit packages. Soon we will have been reduced to competing with our neighbors and their particular interest groups.
Whatever happened to "United we Stand?"
Richard (Mon Jan 07 14:03:19 2008)
Honestly Jo, you ask such a silly question !
Everybody knows that Doyle has split the government in half, Money for the roads, never gets to the roads,it comes our of the Misc. Budget, which is another department, and the schools get theirs from the deer license fee, we all all know that the travel budget handles the cigarette income, and the DNR has some repsonsibility for the Casinos.
Why, any intelligent person could see how well organized Madison is in both Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. Now the Bridge Commission was not aware of the 1.2 million, or they would have consulted the Toll Authority, to see if any bridges are missing...
Honestly, it is so simple...
I love it... JE
Rich (Mon Jan 07 23:30:28 2008)
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