Land taken for disputed back taxes
The IRS is formidable but many people might have thought taking Native American’s lands was frowned upon. Apparently not.
The IRS just auctioned off 7,100acres of land (twenty percent of the tribes land) owned by the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. The dispute is about employment taxes owed since 2003.The tribe council has filed suit to attempt to stop the sale claiming that the Bureau of Indian Affairs(BIA) had advised them that a tribal nation was not liable for these taxes.
The land, located within the tribe’s ancestral territory, included a swath being readied for a potential wind farm project that tribal leaders were negotiating. Although valued at $4.6 million, the 7,100 acres was sold for less than $2.6 million to an undisclosed buyer.
More about it here AllGov.com
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