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By: Storme Jones
The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma sent energy companies within tribal boundaries a letter notifying them of a new permit requirement and gross production tax. However, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter has questions.
The December 7 letter from the tribe’s business and corporate regulatory commission said in part, “If you are actively producing oil and/or gas within our jurisdictional area you are required to pay a severance fee of 8% of the gross market value.
The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma declined to explain the letter on camera or return our multiple requests for comment. The website listed on the letter to energy companies does not work.
Seminole Nation is asked to stop trying to tax oil companies
December 16, 2020 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter asked the Seminole Nation to stop sending oil and gas companies notices that they are subject to taxes in the tribe’s “jurisdictional area.”
This action by the tribe has reinforced fears that members of the Five Tribes will assert civil jurisdiction in the wake of a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court involving a convicted child rapist within the Creek Nation’s historical boundaries, that the Creek reservation was never disestablished, The Oklahoman reported.
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The Court of Criminal Appeals is expected to affirm recent state court rulings that the reservations of the other four tribes were never disestablished.
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