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The tax man just can’t seem to get a break these days. Billion-dollar private-equity companies are fighting against President Ob
The tax man just can’t seem to get a break these days. Billion-dollar private-equity companies are fighting against President Ob
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2015-03-25
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The tax man just can’t seem to get a break these days. Billion-dollar private-equity companies are fighting against President Obama’s proposal to tax them at higher levels. Congressional Republicans are working to extend Bush-era cuts. And the Taxed Enough Already Party is demonstrating across the country against what it sees as the federal government’s overreach into their pockets. Now American Indians are battling New York Gov. David Paterson over whether the state has the right to tax cigarettes sold on reservations.
A federal court yesterday halted efforts by New York to start levying the taxes on cigarettes sold to nontribal buyers. Faced with a mounting budget crisis, Paterson had vowed to start bringing in money from reservation sales as soon as today. The Seneca Nation, which asked for the
injunction
, sees the right to sell tobacco on its land as part of its national sovereignty. "Most Americans don’t understand that reservations are separate from the state," says Greg Gagnon, who is a Chippewa and associate professor of Indian studies at the University of North Dakota. "State jurisdiction is not supposed to extend onto reservations. "
At issue is more than $150 million in taxes, according to the state’s collection bureau. The tribes have always sold tax-free cigarettes. And sales of tobacco on Native American land has exploded with the increase in national cigarette taxes over the past decade, as non-Indians drove to reservations or ordered over the Internet to avoid paying the $10-per-pack price. At its height in 2005, reservation cigarette sales were more than $2 billion—43 percent of all tobacco sales in the state, according to the tax bureau. New York thinks of all that untaxed money as lost revenue, but the Senecas see it as a backbone of their economy.
Paterson is not the first governor to tangle with the Indian nations. The administrations of governors George Pataki and Mario Cuomo also tried to bring in funds from the reservations. They caved on the issue after tribal members shut down interstate highways, blocking traffic and setting fires. "It’s been 25 years and somehow the state hasn’t gotten what they are trying for," Seneca Nation president Barry Snyder told Newsweek following yesterday’s ruling. "So they are still coming after us, still trying to come after the Senecas’ economics. "
The Senecas aren’t the only nation being pushed to pay tobacco taxes. lndian nations in Kansas, Washington, and Oklahoma are involved in court cases to decide cigarette-tax issues, although most Indian nations settled disputes with states years ago, after a series of Supreme Court rulings in the 1980s, which held that states may tax sales to non-Indians.
If the state succeeds and ends up collecting tax on the Marlboros nontribal people buy, it won’t affect the Seneca much because, says Snyder, "we are planning to get rid of Philip Morris anyway and have the entire business—manufacturing and distribution—all in our nation. We are ultimately going to have no Marlboros, and then there will be no New York state taxes. "
What is the American Indians fighting against?
选项
A、President Obama’s proposal.
B、The Bush-era taxes cuts.
C、The state’s cigarette taxes on them.
D、The federal government’s oppression.
答案
C
解析
事实细节题。由题干关键词the American Indians定位至第一段末句。该句提及,美国印第安人正在与纽约州长大卫·帕特逊就该州是否有权向在印第安保留地销售的烟草进行征税而斗争,故答案为[C]。第一段第二句提及,资产上十亿的非上市公司们正在对抗奥巴马总统关于向他们课以更高税额的提议,而非the American Indians,故排除[A];第一段第三句提及,共和党议员们正在致力于扩展布什时代的削减税收政策,故排除[B];第一段第四句提及,美国茶党正在全国对联邦政府对他们钱袋子看似过度的索取而示威,故排除[D]。
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