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No evidence Higgs will share forestry revenue after axing tax agreement, First Nations say


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. ....

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