[L-I] Treaty rights win important Iroquois/New York tax fight - battle may be continuing

Note by Hunter Bear [with a couple of clarifying notes in body of new story
itself]:

Native determination and treaty rights win important Iroquois/New York tax
fight - battle may be continuing.

The cigarette business at the Shoshone/Bannock Fort Hall res -- which
adjoins Pocatello ID -- continues to do very nicely indeed.  Much business
from all kinds of smokers. Heavy flow of good folks.  Idaho State Leg,
heavily Republican, has backed away from the so-called Indian cigarette tax
issue.

Among related major USSC Native tax cases are Warren Trading Post v Arizona
State Tax Commission [1965] [at Navajo] -- prohibiting the state from
levying and collecting SALES tax on reservation retail sales -- and
Jicarilla [Apache] v Merrion [1982] enabling tribes to collect taxes on
non-Indian entities [including corporations] doing business on the
reservations.

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20041007/1011899.asp

"The last time the state tried to enforce cigarette and gasoline tax laws on
Indian retailers, protesters in 1997 closed down portions of the [New York]
Thruway in clashes with state police. "

State lets bill on Indian tax expire
By TOM PRECIOUS
News Albany Bureau
10/7/2004