Any taxes paid on transactions in the "Sovereign Nation"?
Musk, you clever devil!
Honest Injun Motors.
All I will say about this is, even the feds are been stand offish from the tribal lands, except in 1968 going after Uranium. But I think this is clever of Elon
If The Indians would only realize what they have they would be rich. Not just casino money either.
They are effectively THEIR OWN COUNTRY within our country.
But government handouts kept them poor.
They may sell a TON of cars - tax free- this way!!!
“Musk, you clever devil!”
“I read your book!!”
But a Tesla...get scalped!
Seriously...this tickles me.
Cool those cars send out their own smokes signals from time to time
Cool
There should be a NM tax due when you import and register the car for use in NM.
Competition sucks hey Government, LOL
The fact that states require car manufactures to sell through dealers makes no sense and stinks of corruption.
since these autos aren’t being sold in the U.S., then their owners shouldn’t be eligible for any state or federal kickbacks ...
There are definitely tax advantages available, for businesses willing to do business on sovereign tribal lands. And the DOI has been promoting that kind of development, and those types of agreements, for many years - using a search engine other than google, look for "Office of Indian Economic Development" or "Division of Energy and Mineral Development" (there may be other groups as well).
It's definitely to Mr. Musk's credit, that he's looked 'outside the box' for a solution, and apparently found one in cooperation with a sovereign tribe. (Hopefully he also included a clause in his contract with the tribe, specifying that any disputes will be settled in federal - rather than tribal - courts; otherwise, he risks 'getting his clock cleaned'! ;^)
Many years ago my dad got transferred to Phoenix, Arizona. He was in the car finance business. I remember being shocked (I was young with a skull full of mush back then) when he said he would not finance a car sale to an Indian. Back then, once the car was on the reservation it was virtually impossible to collect the debt or fetch the car. Tribal law, tribal courts.