As of February 2003, my data was correct in that the idaho tribal governments remit fuel sales taxes to the state, and receive none back.
Als, keep in mind that the major users of roads on the reservations are non-indians. I suppose if you'd really like to push it, they can start charging your farmers a "use tax" for access to use of the roads instead - but then, food costs would go up. Be careful what you wish for.
The bottom line is, the tribes pay more than there fair share, but it's never enough, and it won't ever be enough, right?
As of February 2003, my data was correct in that the idaho tribal governments remit fuel sales taxes to the state, and receive none back. Als, keep in mind that the major users of roads on the reservations are non-indians. I suppose if you'd really like to push it, they can start charging your farmers a "use tax" for access to use of the roads instead - but then, food costs would go up. Be careful what you wish for.
The major users of the roads are non-Indians, we already established that. The tribes do not pay for maintenance of the roads on their land, with the exception of 43 miles of mostly dirt road on the Sho-Ban reservation. That is fact from the Idaho Trans Dept.
Also, per a legal stipulation as of March of 2002, no fuel tax money has been remitted to the state on any fuel sold to a retail outlet on the reservations. Your Feb 2003 data is not completely correct. Again, yes the tribes sent the money in the past. However, who ultimately paid the tax??? The person who bought it from the retailer. The tribe paid zilch. The tribe no more paid that money than did any other retailer in the state. The consumer paid it and more than 90% of the tribe's customers statewide were non-indians. The money collected by a retailer in Boise doesn't come back to that street or Boise itself, it goes into the big pot for all of Idaho.