Tribes Say IRS Moves to Tax Tribal Per Capita Payments; Congress Investigates

Three tribal leaders testified before the U.S. Congress on September 15 that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was moving to tax non-gaming per capita payments paid by tribes to their tribal citizens through trust accounts held by the U.S. Department of the Interior. They charged that this would be a violation of federal law—a charge that at least one IRS official seemed convinced of by the end of the hearing.

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