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The tax deals let First Nations keep 95 per cent of the provincial tax they collect at on-reserve retail outlets, including gas stations and convenience stores. Some will expire in 90 days and others will end next year.
Last year bands brought in tax amounts ranging from $17.6 million at Madawaska Maliseet First Nation to $230,000 at Tobique.
Premier Blaine Higgs calls the system unfair to non-Indigenous businesses and even unjust between First Nations that make a lot of money and those that make less.
Dunn suggested Tuesday that resource revenue-sharing agreements for forestry and mining signed in Ontario in 2018 were one example of a better way to go.
Tobique chief fires back at premier for saying tax deal created super wealthy reserves
Tobique First Nation Chief Ross Perley said Premier Blaine Higgs should be applauding Indigenous entrepreneurship instead of implying that a gas-tax-sharing agreement was unfair for some reserves.
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Tobique First Nation Chief Ross Perley said Premier Blaine Higgs should be proud of successful Indigenous-owned businesses, instead of trying to hold them back.(Jacques Poitras/CBC)
A First Nations chief whose reserve has seen only a tiny fraction of the total tax-sharing revenue in the province says he doesn t feel the system is unfair to his community.
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Premier Blaine Higgs has called on First Nations chiefs to negotiate a modern and sustainable economic partnership. (Submitted by the Government of New Brunswick)
The New Brunswick government is pulling out of tax-sharing agreements with 13 Mi kmaq and Wolastoqey First Nations, invoking its right to terminate some of the deals as early as this July.
Those agreements, which date back to 1994 and were last renewed in 2017, have fuelled economic growth in some Indigenous communities, particularly those that have built large gas retailers on reserve land.
The deals allow the First Nations to keep 95 per cent of on-reserve gas tax revenue up to $8 million and 70 per cent of amounts beyond that.